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Edité par Helsinki : Gaudeamus, University of Helsinki Press, 2009
ISBN 10 : 9515707269ISBN 13 : 9789515707260
Vendeur : Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, Royaume-Uni
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Soft cover. Etat : New. 452 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm. A thread that runs through the chapters is the recognition of audiovisual iperformance/i as a central theoretical category. The focus of the essays is exclusively contemporary. In this way, the book addresses a cluster of concerns that pertain to audiovisual production, performance and consumption in a variety of present day contexts. Chapters are organised thematically around the haedings Avant-garde aesthetics, Re-sounding soundtracks, Televisual intertexts, Interrogating the mainstream, and Personal politics and embodied performance. Contents: Introduction / John Richardson and Stan Hawkins -- Avant-garde aesthetics. Aphex twin : monstrous hermaphrodites, madness and the strain of independent dance music / Stan Hawkins ; Listening to video art and the problem of too many homelands / Anahid Kassabian ; Going with the flow : compositional and analytical perspectives on soundtracks for experimental films / Petri Kuljuntausta and John Richardson -- Re-sounding soundtracks. Demystified, remystified, and seduced by sirens : listening to David Lynch's films / Annette Davison ; Stardom, genre, and myth : music in Ani Kaurismäki's film The man without a past / Erkki Pekkilä -- Televisual intertexts. Musical migration, perverted instruments and cosmic sounds : queer constructions in the music and sound of Angels in America / Susanna Välimäki ; A dialogue with the past : references to sixties culture in the title sequence of Friends / Yrjö Heinonen -- Interrogating the mainstream. An introduction to the participatory and non-linear aspects of video games audio / Karen Collins ; Diegetic music in Star wars : the case of the Max Rebo Band / Antti-Ville Kärjä -- Personal politics and embodied performance. Aesthetic and performative considerations of Christina Milian's music video Dip it low / Jon Refsdal Moe ; Envisioning the future : technology, futurism and the politics of race in Detroit techno / Sanna Rojola ; Double-voiced discourse and bodily pleasures in contemporary Finnish rock : the case of Maija Vilkkumaa / John Richardson.