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Bringing concepts from early film theory into dialogue with the vibrant field of contemporary sound studies, Wild Sound turns an analytic eye and ear to the role of the soundscape in cinema, particularly the way that film soundtracks capture, create, represent, and even critique our sonic environment.
Listening beyond music and dialogue, this book draws attention to the oft-ignored background soundscape-film's "wild sound"-which plays a quiet but substantial role in determining how film audiences feel about certain places, people, and processes. It explores the relationship between location sound and wider practices of phonographic field recording in the creation of a cinematic sonic environment.
The latter half of the book shifts attention from the controlled soundscapes of cinema to the relatively chaotic sonic environments of the world around us. Michael Pigott ultimately demonstrates how a theory of cinematic soundscapes helps us develop practical strategies for investigating the sonic environment in our personal and natural sound worlds, beyond the cinema auditorium.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Wildness of Sound
2. Ghosts in the Grass
3. Lumberjack Westerns
4. Volcanic Cinema
5. Oceans of Sound
Afterword: Atmosphere, Dead Air and the Deep Hum of the World
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Product details
| Published | Jan 22 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781501350931 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 20 bw illus |
| Series | The Study of Sound |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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