Landry, Olivia

A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive

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ISBN 13:
9781487544850
author:
Landry, Olivia
format:
Hardback
publisher:
University of Toronto Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2022
Pages:
232
Dimensions:
23.2 x 15.4 x 2 centimetres (0.0
Genre:
Professional & Vocational, Tertiary Education (US: College), Nonfiction,
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New
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£43.39

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A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive by Olivia Landry This book offers a sceptical 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, Landry reveals how these practices are entangled with the logic of Euro-American empire. Landry provides close readings of several disparate documentary films from the late 1990s and the early 2000s, examining how they employ recordings plucked from different colonial sound archives to disrupt their purposes. By drawing on film and documentary studies, sound studies, German studies, archival studies, postcolonial studies, and media history, Landry develops a method of decolonizing listening. By challenging traditional methods of listening and archiving, A Decolonizing Ear sheds new light on the complex relationships between sound, technology, and colonialism.

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