Silences, sounds of the Rivers, sounds of the cities: Los Muertos and Liverpool

Authors

  • Fernando Morais da Costa Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v10i1.5798

Keywords:

Sound. Cinema. Noise.

Abstract

This arcticle aims to analyze the relation between sounds and images in Lisandro Alonso’s Los Muertos and Liverpool. It is of our interest to think about the narrative roles given to sound effects and ambient sounds, to speak of the importance given to such sound elements, opposite to the minor role played by music and dialogue, all that working within the cinematic regime of the sequence shot. Therefore, this work tries, most of all, to investigate how ambient sounds and diegetic noises contribute for such a particular temporal construction. It is also a secundary goal to establish some relationship between those films and other examples of a cinema that has declined the usual dialogue’s central narrative part, as well as to recall the ideia and definition of a cinema of poetry.

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Author Biography

Fernando Morais da Costa, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Professor do Departamento de Cinema e Vídeo e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

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Published

2012-06-11

How to Cite

da Costa, F. M. (2012). Silences, sounds of the Rivers, sounds of the cities: Los Muertos and Liverpool. Contemporanea, 10(1), 147–157. https://doi.org/10.9771/contemporanea.v10i1.5798

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2012): Dossiê Música, Escuta e Comunicação

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