Empathic Sound in Film: The Deaf Soundscape of Sound of Metal (opens in new tab)

An expanded version of this article was originally published in French in the peer-reviewed journal Images Secondes. Film can control not only what we hear, but how we hear it. Through a sound design that uses muffling, distortion, oscillations in volume, tinnitus-like overlays and abrupt cuts to silence, countless films and series attempt to convey […]