Reflexively Listening To Metronomes in Cinema
Presented under title “Historicizing Timbre: Cinema’s Transnational Uses of Metronomes” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), April 2025
References
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Curtis, Scott. “The Sound of the Early Warner Bros. Cartoons.” In Sound Theory/Sound Practice, Rick Altman ed. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Eidsheim, Nina Sun. The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Hayles, Katherine. “Voices Out of Bodies, Bodies Out of Voices: Audiotape and the Production of Subjectivity.” In Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, edited by Adalaide Morris, 74–96. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Hicks, Jeremy. Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
Li (Zematova), Anna. “Screen and Rhythm” (“Экран и ритм”). Kino-Gazeta, 1918.
Lowenstein, Adam. Horror Film and Otherness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
MacKay, John. “Disorganized Noise: Enthusiasm and the Ear of the Collective.” Kinokultura 7 (2005).
Moskovitz, Marc D. Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022.
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Phillips, Rasheedah. Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time. AK Press, 2025.
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Tsivian, Yuri. “New Notes on Russian Film Culture Between 1908 and 1919.” In The Silent Cinema Reader, Edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer. London: Routledge, 2004.
Further Metronome Viewing
“Crush.” Apple Corporation Advertisement for iPad Pro, 2024.
Hitchcock, Alfred, Arthur Laurents, James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, et al. Rope. Limited ed. Universal City, Calif: Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2012.
Obayashi, Nobuhiko. Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, and Ai Matubara. Hausu. Tokyo: Toho, 1977.
Pitt, Brad, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Fincher, Inc New Line Productions, and New Line Home Video. Seven. S.l: New Line Home Video, 1997.
Skolimowski, Jerzy, Jeremy. Thomas, Robert Graves, Mike Molloy, Alan Bates, Susannah York, and John Hurt. The Shout. S.l: Network, 2007 [1978].
Vertov, Dziga. Enthusiasm; Kino-Pravada. Minneapolis, Minn: Festival Films, 1980 [1931].
