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II. Film Sound Theories 3. Feminist Film Theory

She is Keith and Kathy Sachs Professor of Art History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania She is the author of nine books, including works that draw from psychoanalysis: The Acoustic Mirror and Male Subjectivity at the Margins. Her new book, The Miracle of Analogy, published in 2015, is the first volume in a two- volume reconceptualization of photography. She writes and teaches on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, photography, cinema, painting, as well as feminist theory. Kaja Silverman

This book is concerned with the female voice in psychoanalysis and cinema Published in 1988 The influence of post-structuralist theory, deconstruction, and Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on feminist film theory in the late 1970s and 1980s The Acoustic Mirror

Why psychoanalysis? How does Silverman use psychoanalysis to discuss the particular position of women’s voices in narrative cinema?

Sonic vraisemblable Dubbing and synchronization Male and female subjectivity: exteriority and interiority Invagination SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN:

Subject formation: the mother’s voice as acoustic mirror, sonorous envelope Dystopic fantasy / abject: web-like, entrapment, engulfment; Chion Utopic fantasy / objet (a): plenitude and bliss, idyllic unity of mother and child; Rosolato and Kristeva Fantasies of The Mother’s Voice:

Chora: signifier for the moment prior to the Mirror Stage and the Symbolic, an image of unity between mother and child, associated with music and poetry The mother speaks: Laura Mulvey’s “voice- off” in RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX

The Screaming Point (Chion, pp.76-77) The Point of the Cry (Silverman, p. 77) Is the screaming / crying point always beyond meaning and subjectivity? The Screaming / Crying Point: