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False Reality in the Audio-Logo-Visual Sphere: on Science and Cinema

False Reality in the Audio-Logo-Visual Sphere: on Science and Cinema Cinematic ‘reality’ is a construct which is open to many interpretations, so long as we take the movies for what they are, namely a fiction, and documentaries for what they are, namely a random trace of reality from the viewpoint of the filmmaker. But as soon as we begin to mistake an image for reality, or the mask of another reality, also visible, and we reach conclusions on everything’s relativism, including that of all viewpoints, we distort the relationship with truth and, in the final analysis, with science. In this article, discusses how different layers of meaning can be embedded into the way such reality is read through image and sound. The intersection of science and cinema does not seem to have produced any noteworthy results for either discipline, despite the fact that movies were in large part inspired by scientific investigations, in particular the study of animal and human movement, such as the flight of birds. KEYWORDS film sound language dialogue voiceover 1. The original article in French is appended below. The New Soundtrack 2.1 (2012): 23–38 DOI: 10.3366/sound.2012.0025 # Edinburgh University Press www.eupjournals.com/SOUND 2. See his fascinating and still pertinent article, ‘Montage interdit’, in ´ Qu’est-ce http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New Soundtrack Edinburgh University Press

False Reality in the Audio-Logo-Visual Sphere: on Science and Cinema

Chion, Michel
The New Soundtrack , Volume 2 (1): 23 – Mar 1, 2012
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Cinematic ‘reality’ is a construct which is open to many interpretations, so long as we take the movies for what they are, namely a fiction, and documentaries for what they are, namely a random trace of reality from the viewpoint of the filmmaker. But as soon as we begin to mistake an image for reality, or the mask of another reality, also visible, and we reach conclusions on everything’s relativism, including that of all viewpoints, we distort the relationship with truth and, in the final analysis, with science. In this article, discusses how different layers of meaning can be embedded into the way such reality is read through image and sound. The intersection of science and cinema does not seem to have produced any noteworthy results for either discipline, despite the fact that movies were in large part inspired by scientific investigations, in particular the study of animal and human movement, such as the flight of birds. KEYWORDS film sound language dialogue voiceover 1. The original article in French is appended below. The New Soundtrack 2.1 (2012): 23–38 DOI: 10.3366/sound.2012.0025 # Edinburgh University Press www.eupjournals.com/SOUND 2. See his fascinating and still pertinent article, ‘Montage interdit’, in ´ Qu’est-ce

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