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See No Evil: Audio Identification with the Monstrous in Under the Skin
- Source: Film Matters, Volume 14, Issue 3, Dec 2023, p. 28 - 39
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- 15 Mar 2024
Abstract
Exploring the role of audio in connecting audience and narrative, this article discusses Johnathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (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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