Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I The Unlistenable
7. CHAPTER 1 The Body at Close Range: Volume and the Unlistenable in Catherine Breillat’s Anatomy of Hell 25
8. CHAPTER 2 Sonic Subjection: Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible and the Dystopian Limits of the Resonant Body 51
9. Part II Migratory Noise
10. CHAPTER 3 A Stranger Everywhere: The écho-monde of Tony Gatlif’s Exiles 75
11. CHAPTER 4 Feedback, Asynchronicity and Sonic Sociabilities: Arnaud des Pallières’s Adieu 98
12. Part III Nonhuman Noise
13. CHAPTER 5 Listening at the Limit: Nonhuman Noise in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist 117
14. CHAPTER 6 Listening to Things: Foley as ‘Alien Phenomenolog y’ and Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio 145
15. Conclusion 169
16. Filmography 175
17. Bibliography 178
18. Index 187