Godly NoisesResounding Divine Materiality in Contemporary Trailer Culture
Addressing the phenomenon of an as of yet nameless, but ubiquitous droning sound deviceoften simply called BRAAAMin contemporary teaser and trailer culture, this article explores the quasi-religious experience of encountering artfully facilitated material sounds of transcendence. BRAAAM sound phen...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2017]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-85 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Film trailers (Film)
/ Soundverarbeitung
/ Ritualization
/ Deus ex machina
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CD Christianity and Culture |
| Further subjects: | B
trailer
B Mediatization B Material Culture B Deus ex machina B special effects B acoustic technologies B Religious Practice B Voice B Ritualization B teaser |
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| Summary: | Addressing the phenomenon of an as of yet nameless, but ubiquitous droning sound deviceoften simply called BRAAAMin contemporary teaser and trailer culture, this article explores the quasi-religious experience of encountering artfully facilitated material sounds of transcendence. BRAAAM sound phenomena are developed as Deus ex Machina devices and their significance in teasers and trailers as autonomous aestheticizations is mapped out. It will be argued that at the peak of the salvific narrative structure of trailers, they defer physical and narrative resolution. A brief genealogy of the materiality of Deus ex Machina sound devices in Western Christianity leads to a few considerations on the religious practice of teaser and trailer consumption as ritualized anticipation and deferral. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.29.1.3513 |