Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures; the representation of music listening has remained a special occurrence.In Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema; author Giorgio Biancorosso argues for a redefinition of the music listener as represented in film. Rather than construct the listener as a reverential concertgoer; music analyst; or gallery dweller; this book instead shows how films offer a new way of thinking about listening as distributed experience; an activity made public and shareable across vast cultural spaces rather than an insular motion. It shows how cinema functions as not only a reservoir of established modes of listening; but also an agent in the development of new listening practices. As Biancorosso argues; many films have perpetuated a long-existing paradox of music as a means of silencing. Consider an aggressive score overlaying battle scenes or a romantic scene conveying unspoken intimacy. In the place of conversational exchange exists a veil of sound in the form of music; and Situated Listening explains why this function influences both the course of interpretation and empathy experienced by film spectators. By focusing on cinematic; physical; and emotional scenery surrounding a character; viewers can recognize aspects of their own lives; developing a deeper empathy for each fictional character through real and shared listening practices.
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