Haunted Soundtracks

Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound

Kevin J. Donnelly,Aimee Mollaghan

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781501389566
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Médias et arts de la scène
• Subtopic: Histoire et critiques de la musique

The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature of history and the complexity underpinning the relationship between location and the past. This has been especially apparent in the shifting relationship between landscape, memory and sound in film, television and other media. The result is growing interest in soundtracks, as part of audiovisual culture, as well as an interest in the spectral aspects of culture more generally. This collection of essays focuses on audiovisual forms that foreground landscape, sound and memory. The scope of inquiry emphasises the ghostly qualities of a certain body of soundtracks, extending beyond merely the idea of 'scary films' or 'haunted houses.' Rather, the notion of sonic haunting is tied to ideas of trauma, anxiety or nostalgia associated with spatial and temporal dislocation in contemporary society. Touchstones for the approach are the concepts of psychogeography and hauntology, pervasive and established critical strategies that are interrogated and refined in relation to the reification of the spectral within the soundtracks under consideration here.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 What wind in what trees? Listening to Blow-Up (1966)
• 3 Imaginal Space and the Occult Soundtrack in Guy Maddin’s Keyhole (2011)
• 4 The Haunted and the Medium
• 5 Producing Paranormal Sounds:Electronic Musc, Projection, and Blurr Boundaries in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Stone Tape (1972)
• 6 Cries and Whpers: Landscape and Sound in The Owl Service (1969) and Red Shift (1978)
• 7 Concrète Spaces: Musique Concrète in Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park (2007)
• 8 Haunted by Extinction: Sounding an Arctic Uncanny
• 9 Acostic Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes in Contemporary British Landscape Cinema
• 10 The Long Trajecory of Death: Justin Kurzel’s Screen Adaptation of Macbeth (2015)
• 11 Haunted Folk: Specters of the Analogue in Annihilation (2018)
• 12 Sonic Novlty and Conceptual Obscrity: Music, Landscape and Enigma in Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
• 13 Ouside Inside: Nature, Gende, and the Altered Domestic Space in Possum (1997) and Nature’s Way (2006)
• Contributors
• Index
• Imprint