Decolonizing Ear - Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive

A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.

List of contents

Introduction: The Phonograph on Film
1. Colonial Listening and the Making of a Sound Archive
2. Decolonial Listening: A Methodology in Three Parts
3. The Noise of Decolonial Listening: From Here to Here and The Halfmoon Files
4. (Re-)Sounding Autoethnography in Marlon Fuentes’s Bontoc Eulogy
5. Weird Objects and Disembodied Voices: Audio Evangelism in The Tailenders
Conclusion: Sinister Listening and Its Afterlives

About the author

Olivia Landry is an assistant professor of German at Lehigh University.

Summary

A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Landry
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781487544850
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-4485-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries