Voices and silences in Brazilian and British contemporary cinema
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This article aims to analyse the sound of contemporary cinema, with an emphasis on two of the sound elements, voices and silences, and some of their representations in contemporary films. By working on both at the same time, it is possible to create a non-dichotomous perspective, a relation that is not based on a simple duality, but on the logic that silences and voices work together to construct narratives and, furthermore, that certain forms of union between both are sonic marks of contemporary cinema. For the purposes of this research, it is important to highlight that this sound aesthetics resonates in recent Brazilian and British films.
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