Full Description
This open access volume examines the functions, reach and effectiveness of sound in communicating and disseminating climate-related content across a variety of audiovisual media.
The humanities, and sub-disciplines within them, have clear roles and responsibilities in the climate crisis, and none more so than the audiovisual arts and media. It is through these receptors that most people learn truths and post-truths, receive news and 'fake news', are informed of scientific data, hear opinions from across the spectrum, and find inspiration for action.
Soundtracks of Climate Change tackles these issues from a variety of perspectives, encompassing different regions, media, ethnicities, genders, languages, genres, mainstream and experimental approaches, fictional and documentary aesthetics, scientific and rational as well as more aesthetically mediated and affectively amplified discourses.
It addresses perspectives from a variety of regional and transnational centres, including East Asia, Africa, the Nordic region, and Atlantic anglophone cultures. As we confront the climate crisis, this collection of articles by leading thinkers across film, music, and sound studies asks how climate change and audiovisual media work to convey the gravity and complexity of our experiences.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Contents
Introduction
Alexis Bennett, Annette Davison, John Richardson
Part 1: Industry
Screen Greenwashing: Audiovisual Imaginaries of Norwegian Oil Futures
Tore Størvold & Julia Leyda (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Monophonies of Extraction
Lutz Koepnick (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Part 2: Transnational voices
"We Will Not Go Quietly Into the Sea": Song and the Atmospheric Knowledge of Digital Storytelling
Birgit Abels (Georg August University of Göttingen)
"Seeing through the End of the World": Floods and Indigenous Futurity in the works of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Spotted Fawn Productions
Rebecca Macklin (University of Aberdeen)
Part 3: Widescreen
Don't Look Up : Or, How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love the Film
Ellen Moore (University of Washington Tacoma)
Part 4: Activism
Poetics of Activism in Climate Crisis Documentaries: Listening to Indigenous Voices
Matthias Grotkopp, Yvonne Pfeilschifter & Janine Leona Schleicher (Freie Universität Berlin)
Strange Resonance: Climate Activism and its Distortions in Neil Hardwick's Pakanamaan kartta
John Richardson (University of Turku)
The Sound of the Tipping Point : Once You Know (Une fois que tu sais)
Alexis Bennett (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Part 5: Creative self-reflection
Letting Sounds Go: Against Sonic Consumption in a Climate Catastrophe
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (Critical Media Lab, Basel)
Q & A with creative practitioners
Annette Davison (University of Edinburgh)
Part 6: Gaming
Playing and Listening as Environmental Action, Care, and Wildlife Observation in Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York )
Musical Allegories of Ecological Disaster in Chrono Trigger: An Ecogame Perspective
Lasse Lehtonen (University of Helsinki)
Transitioning Energies: from AAA to Indie Games
Martin Schauss (University of Glasgow)
Appendices (inc. interview transcripts)
Index
