Vocalities of Violence: Acousmatic Sound and Trauma in Latin American Cinema (1999-2016)
2022-08
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Vocalities of Violence: Acousmatic Sound and Trauma in Latin American Cinema (1999-2016)
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“Acousmatic” describes a sound that occurs without an identifiable visual origin.Similarly, trauma is built upon gaps between source, cause, and effect, where an event of
violence is not entirely psychologically assimilable. Through examples in contemporary Latin
American cinema depicting forms of social, political, and economic violence, I show that trauma
and acousmatic sound are mutual operations whose displaced articulation serves as a new
cinematic narrative strategy. I argue that this mode of storytelling through sonic incongruence in
soundscape, voiceovers, and embodied voices emerges uniquely within the New Cinema
movement since the late 1990s and a transnational context of collective trauma.
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2022. Major: Hispanic and Luso Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. Advisor: Ana Forcinito. 1 computer file (PDF); i, 175 pages.
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Jasnoch, Emma. (2022). Vocalities of Violence: Acousmatic Sound and Trauma in Latin American Cinema (1999-2016). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/243166.
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