A decolonizing ear documentary film disrupts the archive / Olivia Landry.
| Author/creator | Landry, Olivia |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023] |
| Description | xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : The phonograph on film -- Colonial listening and the making of a sound archive -- Decolonial listening : a methodology in three parts -- The noise of decolonial listening : From here to here and The halfmoon files -- (Re-)sounding autoethnography in Marlon Fuentes's Bontoc eulogy -- Weird machines and disembodied voices : audio evangelism in The tailenders -- Conclusion : Sinister listening and its afterlives. |
| Abstract | "The recording of Indigenous voices is one of the most well-known methods of colonial ethnography. In A Decolonizing Ear, Olivia Landry offers a skeptical account of listening as a highly mediated and extractive act, influenced by technology and ideology. Returning to early ethnographic practices of voice recording and archiving at the turn of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the German paradigm, she reveals the entanglement of listening in the logic of Euro-bAmerican empire and the ways in which contemporary films can destabilize the history of colonial sound reproduction. Landry provides close readings of several disparate documentary films from the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The book pays attention to technology and knowledge production to examine how these films employ recordings plucked from different colonial sound archives and disrupt their purposes. Drawing on film and documentary studies, sound studies, German studies, archival studies, postcolonial studies, and media history, A Decolonizing Ear develops a method of decolonizing listening from the insights provided by the films themselves."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Filmography: page [191] |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-190, [193]-207) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Biographical note | Olivia Landry is an assistant professor of German at Lehigh University. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023286565 |
| ISBN | 9781487544850 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1487544855 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (EPUB) |
| ISBN | (PDF) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |