The Fright of the Phonos: the Voice in 'The Battle of Algiers' by Laurent Shervington

“…The film is also renowned for its sonic elements, with sounds of armed conflict, explosions, and engines adding to the realist parameters of the film. In terms of soundtrack, muted guitars and rhythmic drumming are central to significant scenes. …”
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Philadelphia (1993): the keys of a cultural icon by José Aijón Oliva

“…<br />             A great director, a succeeded cast, an excellent screenplay (of a classic structure), a soundtrack which has been carefully chosen and some lights and camera games well cared are the ingredients that make of this film one of the icons of the 1990’s popular culture.…”
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Multimodal Gestalts and Post-pandemic Utopianism: Drum and Bass on the Bike by Damian J. Rivers

“…Situating YouTube uploads as text, and positioning Dom as a harmonic navigator of change and reformation in the urban space, the article draws from a social semiotic multimodal approach to communication and details the development of three multimodal gestalts indicative of post-pandemic society. Against a soundtrack of thunderous drum and bass music, the three emergent gestalts communicate post-pandemic utopianism through the reformation of the relationship between motor vehicle drivers and cyclists, the reformation of urban road space use, and the reformation of diversity in organized cycling events.…”
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Screaming through the century: The female voice as cathartic/transformative force, from Berg's Lulu to Tykwer's Run Lola Run by Maree Macmillan

“…By contrast, Tykwer's film is an end-of-millennium "art-house" film that, on its release, quickly became a cult movie in Germany and beyond; fast-paced, visually and technically innovative, and backed by a driving techno soundtrack, its resonances with many aspects of video games and hypermedia position it as a text that heralds the twenty-first century. …”
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The Sound of 1-bit: Technical constraint and musical creativity on the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum by Kenneth B. McAlpine

“…These solutions were not without computational or aural cost, however, and their application often imparted a unique characteristic to the sound, which over time came to define the aesthetic of the 8-bit computer soundtrack, a sound which has been developed since as part of the emerging chiptune scene. …”
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“What’s Your Taste in Music?” A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Various Soundscapes in Evoking Specific Tastes by Qian (Janice) Wang, Andy T. Woods, Charles Spence

“…Overall, the sweet soundtracks most effectively evoked the taste intended by the composer (participants chose sweet 56.9% of the time for the sweet soundtracks), whereas the bitter soundtracks were the least effective (participants chose bitter 31.4% of the time for the bitter soundtracks), compared with chance (choosing any specific taste 25% of the time). …”
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Melancolia in progress: uma leitura de Os famosos e os duendes da morte by Rejane Rocha

“…This novel is a piece of work related to a wider project that also includes a movie, a soundtrack and several videos uploaded to YouTube. Because of this, it illustrates some writing and reading procedures that are typical of the digital context.…”
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Phantasmagorien des Krieges: Authentizitätsstrategien, affektive Historizität und der antike Krieg im modernen Computerspiel by Christian Rollinger

“…By combining factual accuracy in the graphical representation of archeological minutiae, incorporating well-known narrative, visual and contextual tropes of antiquity, utilizing visually resplendent and almost photorealistic graphics and incorporating acoustic clues such as spoken Latin and a soundtrack reminiscent of film classics, the game developers are successful at achieving ‘affective historicity’ (Winnerling 2014) – an acceptance on the player’s part of the game setting’s historic authenticity based on a combination of sensory impulses rather than a strict adherence to historical fact by game developers.…”
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THUTOAH - The Holographic Universe Theory of Art History by Suzanne Treister

“…Alongside this colossal library of images is a soundtrack of interviews with, and watercolours by, the scientists at CERN - illustrations and articulations of the holographic principle. …”
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From futuristic center to lifeless periphery: Tokyo in three dystopian narratives from post-Fukushima Japan by Giulia Colelli

“…The purpose of this paper is to explore this peculiar role of Tokyo in three selected case studies: namely, Adou (2021-) by Amano Jaku, Soundtrack (2003) by Furukawa Hideo, and The Emissary (2013) by Tawada Yōko. …”
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Epics, popular culture and politics in a modern work of art by Lidija Merenik

“…“Death in Dallas” is a video-installation by Zoran Naskovski comprised of a) visual documentary material connected to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the president of the USA and materials about his public and private life; b) a soundtrack comprised of a poem accompanied by gusle by Jozo Karamatić with decasyllabic lyrics “Death in Dallas” by Božo Lasić. …”
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Engaged Soundscapes: The Emotionalized Sound of Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Massimo Locatelli

“…In his work with a stable team of technicians (with regard to the soundtrack, musician Peer Raben, editor Juliane Lorenz, and sound engineer Milan Bor), it may reasonably be claimed that he transformed the passionate explosion of the “long 1960s” into a mature mode of production ready to enter the 1980s and beyond and to reach into our times. …”
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Listening to The Intrepid Alix: audio experience of a classical bande dessinée by Benoît Glaude

“…However, we will see that it cannot be considered simply as a soundtrack to the comic. Indeed, I will demonstrate that The Intrepid Alix does not need an audiobook edition in order to integrate a sound experience.…”
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Screaming through the century: The female voice as cathartic/transformative force, from Berg's Lulu to Tykwer's Run Lola Run by Maree Macmillan

“…By contrast, Tykwer's film is an end-of-millennium "art-house" film that, on its release, quickly became a cult movie in Germany and beyond; fast-paced, visually and technically innovative, and backed by a driving techno soundtrack, its resonances with many aspects of video games and hypermedia position it as a text that heralds the twenty-first century. …”
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Yazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian martyr acts in Syriac to Sureth poetry on YouTube, via a historical novel in Arabic by Alessandro Mengozzi

“…The poem On Yazdandukht, as chanted by the poet himself, became the soundtrack of a video published on YouTube in 2014.…”
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The rabbit hole by Lee, Amanda Ping Ping

“…The cushions are installed with vibration motor modules, which vibrate at a different pattern whenever the visual changes. The visuals and soundtrack both establish the atmosphere of the type of dreamscape that I wanted to convey to the audience, some calming, and some more unnerving.…”
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ANALISIS LIRIK LAGU �QĺNG F�I DE YĬ ( ���已 )� dalam FILM � LI�XĪNG HU�YU�N ( ���� )�... by , FITRIANI, , Citra Ayu Novitasari, B. Art., MTCSOL

“…The song lyrics has became film soundtrack, the writer try to analyze with the structural and semiotic. …”

Riot and revenge: Symmetry and the Cronulla riot in Abe Forsythe's Down Under by Kenta McGrath

“…This article considers how Down Under reinforces the distortive implications of this "riot and revenge" narrative by maintaining a structural equilibrium, through the rigorous balancing of its narrative and characters, and formally, via its soundtrack, cinematography and editing patterns. In so doing, and despite its antiracist sentiments, the film ultimately dilutes the issue of race and obscures the power imbalances that informed the riot, and which continue to this day…”
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Předběžné poznámky k multimodální transkripci pro neslyšící: příklad úpravy filmových titulků pro osoby, které mají převážně vizuální zkušenost se světem by Tamara Kováčová

“…The first one is adding information about various noises heard in the soundtrack and the second is transcription of monologues of the inner speech of characters or speeches of characters not visible in the shot. …”
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Inauthenticity as a Disruption of Neoliberal Resilience Discourse in Brady Corbet's Vox Lux by Alice Pember

“…Whilst Raffey Cassidy's performance of the soundtrack was praised in many reviews, the performance of Natalie Portman (playing the older Celeste) was criticised for its inauthentic delivery. …”
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