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Sound, image and fake realism

Sound figures in audiovisuals

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the conventional semiotic processes linking sound to image in audiovisuals. Examples drawn from contemporary cinema apply the sound dimension as a field of experimentation, attempting to find what can be defined as the ‘intrinsic iconic properties’ of sound. The article’s focus is on the continuum between realism and anti-realism in the audiovisual sound/image relation, as well as on the association/dissociation between sound and image as a terrain for unusual narrative possibilities. The fashion for using the sound dimension in audiovisuals further underlines its constructed and artificial character, as it constantly searches for a relationship with an ‘authentic reality’.

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the conventional semiotic processes linking sound to image in audiovisuals. Examples drawn from contemporary cinema apply the sound dimension as a field of experimentation, attempting to find what can be defined as the ‘intrinsic iconic properties’ of sound. The article’s focus is on the continuum between realism and anti-realism in the audiovisual sound/image relation, as well as on the association/dissociation between sound and image as a terrain for unusual narrative possibilities. The fashion for using the sound dimension in audiovisuals further underlines its constructed and artificial character, as it constantly searches for a relationship with an ‘authentic reality’.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Iconicity and conceptualization
  6. Iconicity by blending 13
  7. The Bashō code 25
  8. Iconicity in gotoochi-kitii ‘localized Hello Kitty’ 43
  9. Grammar-internal mimicking and analogy 63
  10. To draw a bow 引 83
  11. Spatiotemporal aspects of iconicity 95
  12. Part II. Visual iconicity
  13. From diagrams to poetry 121
  14. The iconized letter 141
  15. The semantics of structure 159
  16. Visual iconicity in Latin poetry 173
  17. Shared and direct experiential iconicity in digital reading games 191
  18. Iconicity, intermediality, and interpersonal meanings in a Social Semiotic Space 211
  19. Model and icon 233
  20. Degrees of indetermination in intersemiotic translation 247
  21. Part III. Auditory iconicity
  22. Sound, image and fake realism 263
  23. Opera, oratorio, and iconic strategies 275
  24. On some iconic strategies in concept albums within the Italian singer-songwriter tradition 295
  25. Iconically expressible meanings in Proto-Indo-European roots and their reflexes in daughter branches 311
  26. The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammatical correlates 331
  27. Author index 351
  28. Subject index 355
Iconic Investigations
This chapter is in the book Iconic Investigations
https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.12.20spa

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Iconicity and conceptualization
  6. Iconicity by blending 13
  7. The Bashō code 25
  8. Iconicity in gotoochi-kitii ‘localized Hello Kitty’ 43
  9. Grammar-internal mimicking and analogy 63
  10. To draw a bow 引 83
  11. Spatiotemporal aspects of iconicity 95
  12. Part II. Visual iconicity
  13. From diagrams to poetry 121
  14. The iconized letter 141
  15. The semantics of structure 159
  16. Visual iconicity in Latin poetry 173
  17. Shared and direct experiential iconicity in digital reading games 191
  18. Iconicity, intermediality, and interpersonal meanings in a Social Semiotic Space 211
  19. Model and icon 233
  20. Degrees of indetermination in intersemiotic translation 247
  21. Part III. Auditory iconicity
  22. Sound, image and fake realism 263
  23. Opera, oratorio, and iconic strategies 275
  24. On some iconic strategies in concept albums within the Italian singer-songwriter tradition 295
  25. Iconically expressible meanings in Proto-Indo-European roots and their reflexes in daughter branches 311
  26. The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammatical correlates 331
  27. Author index 351
  28. Subject index 355
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