Audiovisuality: Supplemental Readings

(A Necessarily Incomplete Bibliography)

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1.       Canadian School:

Bikerts, Sven.  1994.  The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.  Boston: Faber and Faber.

Carey, James W.  1968.  Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan, in McLuhan Pro & Con (ed. Raymond Rosenthal).  New York: Penguin Books, pp. 270- 308.

Carpenter, Edmund and Marshall McLuhan, eds.  1960.  Explorations in Communication: An Anthology.  Boston: Beacon Press.

Eisentein, Elizabeth.  1979.  The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe.  New York: Cambridge.

Farrell, Thomas J.  2000.  Walter Ong’s Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication.  Craskill: Hampton Press. 

Feld, Steven.  1986.  “Orality and Consciousness” in The Oral and the Literate in Music (eds. Yoshiko Tokumaru and Osamu Yamaguti).  Tokyo: Academia Music.

Gronbeck, Bruce, Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup, eds.  1991.  Media, Consciousness and Culture: Explorations of Walter Ong’s Thought.  Newbury Park: Sage. 

McLuhan, Marshall.  1962.  The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Ong, Walter.  1967.  The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

______.  1971.  Rhetoric, Romance and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Meyrowitz, Joshua.  1985.  No Sense of Place: The Imact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Postman, Neil.  1985.  Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.  New York: Viking Press.

______.   1999.  Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How Past Can Improve Our Future.  New York: A.A. Knopf.

Willmott, Glenn.  1996.  McLuhan, Or Modernism in Reverse.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2.            Phenomenology

Butler, Judith.  1989.   “Sexual Ideology and Phenomenological Description,” in The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy (ed. Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young).  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Chang, Briankle.  1996.  Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject and Economies of Exchange.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Derrida, Jacques.  1973 (1967).  Speech and Phenomena, and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs (trans., with an introd., by David B. Allison). Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Heidegger, Martin.  1962 (1927).  Being and Time (trans. John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson).  New York: Harper.

Leder, Drew.  1990.  The Absent Body.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.  1962.  Phenomenology of Perception (trans. Colin Smith).  New Jersey: The Humanities Press. 

______.  1964.  Sense and Nonsense (trans. and preface by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus).  Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Ramsey, Ramsey Eric.  1998.  The Long Path to Nearness: A Contribution to a Corporeal Philosophy of Communication and the Groundwork for an Ethics of Relief.  New Jersey: The Humanities Press. 

Ricoeur, Paul.  1967.  Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology (trans. Edward G. Ballard and Lester Embree).  Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Scarry, Elaine.  1985.  The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Schmidt, James.  1985.  Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism.  New York: Macmillan. 

3.        Semiotics

Baest, Arjan.  1995.  The Semiotics of C.S. Peirce Applied to Music : A Matter of Belief.  Tilburg: Tilburg University Press.

        

Barthes, Roland.  1957.  Mythologies.  New York: Noonday Press.

Burnham, Jack.  1973.  The Structure of Art.  New York: George Brazillier.

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques.  1990.  Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hebdidge, Dick.  1979.  Subculture: The Meaning of Style.  London: Methuen.

Fiske, John and John Hartley.  1978.  Reading Television.  London: Methuen. 

Hall, Stuart and Tony Jefferson (eds.).  1976.  Resistance Through Ritual: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain.  London: Hutchinson.

Hall, Stuart, et al (eds.). 1980.  Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies 1972-1979.  London: Hutchinson. 

Hawkes, Terence.  1977.  Structuralism and Semiotics.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Levi-Strauss, Claude.  1966.  The Savage Mind.  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Merrell, Floyd.  1997.  Peirce, Signs, and Meaning.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Silverman, Kaja.  1983.  The Subject of Semiotics.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Wollen, Peter.  1972.  Signs and Meaning in Cinema.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

4.            The Gaze

Arnheim, Rudolf.  1969.  Visual Thinking.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Benjamin, Walter.  1999 (n.d.).  The Arcades Project (trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin).  Cambridge: Harvard University Press.  (Especially “M: The Flaneur”.)

Berger, John.  1972.  Ways of Seeing.  New York: Viking Press.

Buck-Morss, Susan.  1989.  The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project.  Cambridge: MIT Press.

Cartwright, Lisa.  1995.  Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Clark, T.J.  1999 (revised).  The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers.  Princeton: Princeton University Press

Deleuze, Gilles.  1988.  “A New Cartographer,” in Foucault (trans. Sean Hand).  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Elkins, James.  1996.  The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing.  New York: Simon and Schuster.

Friedberg, Anne.  1993.  Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Gombrich, E.H.  1960.  Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.  New York: Pantheon Books.

Gombirch, E.H., Julian Hochberg and Max Black.  1972.  Art, Perception, and Reality.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Hansen, Miriam.  1991.  Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 

Lyon, David.  1994.  The Electronic Eye : The Rise of Surveillance Society.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Orvell, Miles.  1995.  After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries.  Jackson: University of Mississippi Press.

Pointon, Marcia.  1990.  Naked Authority: the Body in Western Painting 1830-1908.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Silverman, Kaja.  1996.  The Threshold of the Visible World.  New York: Routledge.

Zizek, Slavoj.  1991.  Looking Awry.  Cambridge: MIT Press.

5-6.      Listening, Voice, Music

Adorno, Theordor.  1976.  Introduction to the Sociology of Music (trans. E.B. Ashton).  New York: Seabury Press.

Arnheim, Rudolf.  1971 (1936).  Radio.  New York: Arno Press.

Barthes, “The Grain of the Voice” in Image-Music-Text

Cage, John.  1939-1961.  Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage.  Miuddletown: Wesleyan University Press.

Cantrill, Hadley and Gordon Allport.  1935.  The Psychology of Radio.  New York: Harper and Brothers.

Chion, Michel.  1999.  The Voice in Cinema (trans. Claudia Gorbman).  New York: Columbia University Press.

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari.  1987.  “1837: Of the Refrain,” in A Thousand Plateaus (trans. Brian Massumi).  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 310-350.

Durant, Alan.  1984. Conditions of Music.  Albany: SUNY Press.

Eisler, Hanns and Theodor Adorno.  1947.  Composing for the Films.  New York: Oxford. 

Finkelstein, Sidney.  1989.  Composer and Nation: The Folk Heritage in Music.  New York: International Publishers.

Frank, Felicia.  1995.  The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative.   Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Grossberg, Lawrence.  1997.  “’I’d Rather Feel Bad than Not Feel Anything at All’: Rock and Roll, Pleasure and Power,” and “Rock, Territorialization, and Power” in Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture.  Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 64-101.

Kahn, Douglas and Gregory Whitehead (eds.) 1992.  Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde.  Cambridge: MIT Press.

Kahn, Douglas.  1999.  Noise-Water-Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts.  Cambridge: MIT Press

Kraft, James P.  Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution 1890-1950.   Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Johnson, James.  1995.  Listening in Paris: A Cultural History.  Berkeley: university of California Press.

Lawrence, Amy.  1991.  Echo and Narcissus: Women’s Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Levin, David Michael.  1989.  The Listening Self: Personal Growth, Social Change, and the Closure of Metaphysics.

Levin, Thomas Y. 1984 (May-June).  “The Acoustic Dimension - notes on cinema sound” Screen, pp. 65 – 67.

Martin, Michčle.  1991. ‘Hello, Central?’: Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems.  Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Ronell, Avital.  1989.  The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Schwartz, David.  1997.  Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture.  Durham: Duke University Press. 

Truax, Barry.  1984.  Acoustic Communication.  Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Weis, Elizabeth and John Belton.  1985.  Film Sound: Theory and Practice.  New York: Columbia University Press.

7-8.         Reproduction, Reification, Spectacle, and All that Jazz

Adorno, Theodor.  1990 (winter).  “The Form of the Phonograph Record” and “The Curves of the Needle” (trans. Thomas Y. Levin), October 55.

______.  1982.  “On the Fetish Character of Music and the Regression of Listening,” in The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (ed. Andrew Arato).  New York: Continuum.

Barthes, Roland.  1981.  Camera Lucida.  New York: Hill and Wang.

Baudrillard, Jean.  1975.  The Mirror of Production.  St. Louis: Telos Press.

______.  1981.  For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign.  St. Louis: Telos Press.

______.  1982.  In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities.  New York: Semiotext(e). 

______.  1983.  Simulations.  New York: Semiotext(e)

Bazin, Andre.  1967.  What is Cinema?  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Blaukopf, Kurt (ed.)  1982.  The Phonogram in Cultural Communication.  New York: Springer-Verlag Wien.

Chanan, Michael.  1995.  Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and Its Effect on Music.  New York: Verso. 

Debord, Guy.  1990.  Comments on the Society of the Spectacle.  New York: Verso.

Eisenberg, Evan.  1987.  The Recording Angel: The Experience of Music from Aristotle to Zappa.   New York: Penguin Books.

Feenberg, Andrew.  1981.  Lukacs, Marx, and the Sources of Critical Theory.  NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. 

Ford, Simon.  1995.  Realization and Suppression of the Situationist International 1972-1992.

Frank, Felicia.  1995.  The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth Century French Narrative.  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 

Gaines, Jane.  1991.  Contested Culture: The Image, The Voice, and the Law.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno.  1944.  Dialectic of Enlightenment.  New York: Contiuum.

Jameson, Fredric. 1979.  “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture.” Social Text 1: 130-148. 

Kember, Sarah.  1998.  Virtual Anxiety: Photography, New Technologies, and Subjectivity.  New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Lister, Martin.  1995.  the photographic Image in a Digital Culture.  New York: Routledge.

McQuire, Scott.  1998.  Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera.  Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Mowitt, John.  1987.  “The Sound of Music in the Era of Its Electronic Reproducibility,” in Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception (ed. Richard Leppert and Susan McClary).  New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 173-197.

Orvell, Miles.  1989.  The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture 1880-1940.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Plant, Sadie.  1992.  The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age.  New York: Routledge.

Sussman, Elizabeth.  1989.  On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1957-1972.  Cambridge: MIT Press.

Virilio, Paul.  1994.  The Vision Machine.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

9.            Intercultural Sensation

Chernoff, John Miller.  1979.  African Rhythm, African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Eglash, Ron.  1999.  African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Feld, Steven.  1994.  “Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style (uptown title); or (downtown title) ‘Lift-Up-Over-Sounding’: Getting Into the Kaluli Groove” in Music Grooves, pp. 109-150.

Howes, David.  1991.  The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Naficy, Hamid.  1993.  The Making of Exile Cultures.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Nettl, Bruno and Philip V. Bohlman.  1991.  Comparative Musicology and the Anthropology of Music.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Rony, Fatimah.  1996.  The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle.  Durham: Duke University Press.

Stoller, Paul.  1989.  The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 

_____.  1997.  Sensuous Scholarship.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Small, Christopher.  1977.  Music-Society-Education.  London: John Calder.

10-12.      Modernity and Histories of the Senses

Berman, Marshall. 1988.  All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity.  New York: Viking Books. 

Burnett, Charles, Michael Fend and Penelope Gouk, eds.  1991.  The Second Sense: Studies in Hearing and Musical Judgment from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century.  Lond: The Warburg Institute.

Calinescu, Mattei.  1987.  Five Faces of Modernity.  Durham: Duke University Press.

Corbin, Alain.  1998.  Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside.  New York: Columbia University Press.

Czitrom, Daniel.  1982.  Media and the American Mind: From More to McLuhan.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Feher, Michael (with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi).  1989.  Fragments for a History of the Human Body.  New York: Zone Books.  3 Volumes.

Felski, Rita.  1995.  The Gender of Modernity.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Jeffries, Lennard.  1995.  Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body.  New York: Verso.

Johnson, James.  1995.  Listening in Paris: A Cultural History.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kern, Stephen.  1983.  The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Kittler, Friedrich.  1990.  Discourse Networks 1800-1900 (trans. Michael Metteer).  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 

Lowe, Donald.  1982.  History of Bourgeois Perception.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Marvin, Caroline.  1988.  When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electrical Communication in the Nineteenth Century.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Lefebvre, Henri.  1995.  Introduction to Modernity (trans. John Moore).  New York: Verso. 

Peters, John Durham.  1999.  Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Thompson, John.  1995. The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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