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acousmêtre: a standalone construct

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Film sound

a voice-character heard but not seen, whose unseen source gives it powers of ubiquity, panoptic vision and omniscience.

In film sound, acousmêtre refers to a voice-character heard but not seen, whose unseen source gives it powers of ubiquity, panoptic vision and omniscience. This meaning comes from Chion (1982/1999) in The voice in cinema.[1]

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film1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct source4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs voice5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

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Chion, M. (1999). The voice in cinema (C. Gorbman, Ed. & Trans.). Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1982) ISBN 9780231108232

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