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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00824
- Thesis Title
- Alan Splet: the sound design of Blue Velvet and the polyphony of sound effects
- Author
- Fabiano Pereira de Souza
- E-mail
- fabian59 AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Master's
- Year
- 2016
- Number of Pages
- 373
- University
- Universidade Anhembi Morumbi
- Thesis Supervisor
- Rogério Ferraraz
- Supervisor e-mail
- rferraraz AT anhembi.br
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- Portuguese
- Department / Discipline
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação Mestrado e Doutorado
- Copyright Ownership
- Fabiano Pereira de Souza
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, Spanish, (some) French
- URL where full thesis can be found
- periodicos.anhembi.br/arquivos/trabalhos001/445683.pdf
- Keywords
- Cinema. Sound design. Polyphony. Sound counterpoint. Alan Splet. David Lynch.
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- The work of sound designer Alan Splet (1939-1994) and the importance of the sound effect editing studied through the analysis of the film Blue velvet (USA, 1986), directed by David Lynch. The project aim is to research what characterized Splet’s work with sound effects, if it represented innovation in film language and, if so, how it compared to previous films that had also presented sound effect superposition. Another goal is to verify the applicability of the concepts of polyphony and counterpoint to the sound construction of the film.