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Volume 14, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 2042-1869
  • E-ISSN: 2042-1877

Abstract

Exploring the role of audio in connecting audience and narrative, this article discusses Johnathan Glazer’s (2013) starring Scarlett Johansson, outlining the multifaceted power of audio in creating audience identification. Through the film’s consistent rejection of visual pleasure on both a thematic and cinematic level, audio empowers the audience to identify The Woman character without providing definitive labels. This comments on the relationship between Clover’s Final Girl and the monstrous killer, deconstructing the visual binary which separates the two, allowing audio to redefine a scene through non-normativity.

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