TITLE:
Auditory Steering in Haptic Cinema
AUTHORS:
Meng Lu
KEYWORDS:
Film Sound, Haptic Film, Soundscape, Drive My Car, Memoria
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.11 No.1,
February
2,
2023
ABSTRACT: The expressive force of sound culture plays a vital role in cinematic
narrative and representation, and haptic cinema with unique aesthetic features
has particular superiority in terms of sound expression. Currently, an
increasing number of art films showcase innovative explorations of haptic
auditory, bringing about fantastic voyages of perception. The major purpose of
this essay is to elaborate on the audio practice and aural turn in haptic cinema, in order to
comprehend the significance of sound culture. The sub-objective of the case
study is to compare the different audio-visiogenic effects and manifold
audio-visual concomitance based on the textual analysis of Drive My Car,
Memoria, and blind theme films. I intend to apply the soundscape and
audio-vision theories and investigate the haptic cinema pathway. At this stage
in this research, the aesthetic qualities and cultural connotations of haptic
auditory will be examined through three dimensions: perception, narrative, and
metaphor. According to the certain functions of sound, the framework is divided
into the following main parts. First, I will start with the subjectivity and
materiality of sound to illustrate how films achieve haptic auditory
expression; Next, I will demonstrate the way sounds are exerted as narrative
motives in these cases, focusing on the issue of the sound source; Finally, I
will analyse sound in the metaphoric sense, showing the two sample movies’
similar routes from rupture to recovery.