The disembodied voice of power and authority! Very scary!
Paul Bonitzer wrote about this back in the 1970s and, in
one of my favorite books of all time, Kaja Silverman
theorized voices in various embodiements and
disembodiments. See her _The Acoustic Mirror: The Female
Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema_. Though she doesn't
write much on horror, she does talk about _Psycho_ here
and there, along with _Singin' in the Rain_, _Sunset
Boulevard_, and other films. My question: how does music
fit into this? When is music embodied, when is it
disembodied, and what sorts of work does it do?
Rose
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:22:27 +0100
Andrew Hill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I've found the discussion of Sound in Horror films
>intriguing. To push it a bit further do people have any
>thoughts and references for specifically DISEMBODIED
>voices / human sounds (cries, wails etc) ... ?
>
>(Rather like the type Zizek metions in The Desert of the
>Real)
>
>
>thanks
>
>Andrew
>
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