Wild Sound by Michael Pigott - ISBN: 9781501350900
Paperback
Unheard movie sounds reveal worlds beyond the frame, shaping our perception.

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    19 February 2026

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Summary

Wild Sound turns an analytic eye and ear to the role of background sound in cinema, to the way that film sound captures, creates, represents, and even critiques the environments that we inhabit. Listening beyond music and dialogue, this book explores the relationship between location sound, sound libraries, and wider practices of field recording in the creation of the film soundtrack.

Wild Sound is also interested in the wildness of sound, in the ways in which ambien…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781501350900
ISBN-10:1501350900
Author:Michael Pigott
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:19 February 2026
Weight:320g
Dimensions:214mm x 138mm x 14mm
Series:The Study of Sound
About The Author

Michael Pigott

Michael Pigott is Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2013).

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