Terms Flashcards
Theatrophone
expensive subscription service available in certain European markets electrically reproduced some of the sounds of opera and theatre performances in real time for subscribers
acousmatic sound
sound perceived as separated
from its source
schizophonia
condition of living in a recorded media environment where we are surrounded by acousmatic sound. - alienation
Anempathetic Film Music
Music that seems
to be indifferent to or disconnected from the
action being conveyed in a film.
articulation
Meanings get articulated with images/ sounds/
concepts (just like images and sounds get articulated together).
- temporary connected
Modernism
synthesising what came before and pushing to the next level
autonomism
attending exclusively to the features of a work
Instrumentalism
What a work does, function, how it opperates in world
Post Modernism
Blur authorship, rejection of metanarratives
Post structuralism
Emphasis on pluraily of meaning when reading
Reader Response Theory
Concerned with making meaning for the reader
Horizons of expectation
designed by works previously experienced, shifts with class, gender , exerience
Paratext/ metatext
Elements encountered alongside works (description, title) and critical discourse on text (quote by mag on movie)
‘autopoietic
creation and recreation of self
auteur
- An artist who
insists on total autonomy, total control over their work.
