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Danny Hahn is The Silent Sound Designer - a film-writer like no other, passionately unmasking cinema's audio-visual devices with his piercing insights. A compelling argument for the reawakening of primordial senses and a celebration of primitivism, his first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for silent cinema, the films of Ozu, Dreyer, Tati, and Tarkovsky, and the philosophy of Nietzsche. He subverts the conventions of film theory, making way for 'a new film-sound aesthetic', by introducing innovative concepts such as synaesthetic sound manuscripts, audio framing, transcendental diegesis, and asynchronism. Emptiness, stillness and silence in film are discussed in this book as a presence rather than an absence of something - sounds give structure and meaning to silence; dialogue accentuates pauses; movements revalue stasis; information shapes the unknown. The principal discoveries are quietness, silence, the subtlest moments in film, and sound's power to inspire in us images beyond the screen.

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