Audiovisuality: Supplemental Readings
(A Necessarily Incomplete Bibliography)
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.