Authorial intent, after the fact

A friend just wrote and said “I’m teaching The Audible Past next week. Anything I should tell them about the book?” Here’s a lightly edited version of my reply: It’s hard for me to answer that. I have done a few class visits where students read the book and just talk about how it happened …

Film Sound Clichés

Forwarded to the class listserv by one of the students in my Sound Studies seminar. This reminds me of the rule that in Hollywood films a grocery bag must always contain a loaf of French bread. Film sound clichés.