Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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A video essay about the sound design in Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013), which examines the tension between "fidelity" and "intelligibility" (James Lastra) as well as "point of audition" (Michel Chion).

Bibliography


Chion, Michel. Audio-vision: sound on screen (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019)

Lastra, James. “Fidelity Versus Intelligibility,” in Jonathan Sterne, ed., The Sound Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2012)