Occult Aesthetics —— Synchronization in Sound Film

----- 神秘的美感：论有声电影中的同步性

ISBN: 9780199773503 出版年：2014 页码：273 Donnelly, K J Oxford University Press

Moments of precise synchronization in films are the key moments for pulling together physically unconnected image and sound tracks into an illusory whole - both in experiential as well as industrial terms As such, it is surprising that there has been no sustained consideration of the phenomenon of synchronization. The ‘lock’ of audio and visual exerts a synergetic, what might be described as an occult effect: a secret and esoteric effect that can dissipate in the face of an awareness of its existence. The starting point for this investigation is the observation that film tends routinely to move between moments of synchrony between sound and image and points where there is no apparent synchronization. Approaching audio-visual culture from this, more abstract, perspective illuminates it in a form that removes the overfamiliar aspects that have militated against sustained and detailed theorization of sound in films, and the notion of ‘sound films’ more generally