Sound and Polysemy in Film
This article theorizes how the power of sound creates alternative meanings meant to con- firm, incorporate and even challenge dominant film narratives/paradigms. In Zimbabwe, most critical works on popular culture tend to gravitate towards musical lyrics without pay- ing special homage to film s...
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
2016
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| Summary: | This article theorizes how the power of sound creates alternative meanings meant to con-
firm, incorporate and even challenge dominant film narratives/paradigms. In Zimbabwe,
most critical works on popular culture tend to gravitate towards musical lyrics without pay-
ing special homage to film sound. This scenario, in a way, has created a mystery about the
language conventions used by film sound in order to construct socio-cultural realities. The
contention of this article therefore, is that film sound is a language, a signifier of meaning,
which if exploited fully by filmmakers, has potential to construct heterogeneity in film or
multiple perspectives. A theoretical thrust to this article is meant to provoke readers to come
up with innovative ways of understanding how sound has unique ways of producing and
re-producing internal instabilities/ turbulences that interrogates power by exploring human
feeling and human perceptions towards social change. |
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