COLT 380 - Comparative Media: Cinema & Sound
CRN: 21888
Instructor: Steven Brown
Term: Winter 2020
In this seminar, we will analyze the specific sound strategies, technologies, and conventions that constitute the unique soundscapes associated with the genres of horror and science fiction in films such as Alien (1979), Berberian Sound Studio (2012), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Cure (1997), The Exorcist (1973), It Follows (2014), Psycho (1960), The Shining (1980), The Thing (1982), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Special attention will be given to how sound design both modulates our affective responses to and influences our interpretive reception of cinema.