TY - JOUR
T1 - Cinema and choric connection
T2 - Lost in translation as sensual experience
AU - Ott, Brian L.
AU - Keeling, Diane Marie
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - The rise of the new information technologies, and corresponding proliferation of signs, images, and information, has contributed to a growing sense of alienation and dislocation. For many, the contemporary moment is an unending and disorienting sea of sensory-symbolic excesses. Lost in Translation is a film addressed to these anxieties. Engaging the film as a sensual experience, we argue that Lost in Translation equips viewers to confront the feelings of alienation and dislocation brought on by the sensorysymbolic excesses of (post)modernity by fostering a sense of choric connection. This sense, we demonstrate, is elicited primarily by the film's material (nonsymbolic, aesthetic) dimensions. Drawing on an analysis of the film's aesthetic elements, we conclude by reflecting on the implications for film studies, rhetorical studies, and everyday life.
AB - The rise of the new information technologies, and corresponding proliferation of signs, images, and information, has contributed to a growing sense of alienation and dislocation. For many, the contemporary moment is an unending and disorienting sea of sensory-symbolic excesses. Lost in Translation is a film addressed to these anxieties. Engaging the film as a sensual experience, we argue that Lost in Translation equips viewers to confront the feelings of alienation and dislocation brought on by the sensorysymbolic excesses of (post)modernity by fostering a sense of choric connection. This sense, we demonstrate, is elicited primarily by the film's material (nonsymbolic, aesthetic) dimensions. Drawing on an analysis of the film's aesthetic elements, we conclude by reflecting on the implications for film studies, rhetorical studies, and everyday life.
KW - Affect
KW - Lost in translation
KW - Materiality
KW - Semiotic chōra
KW - Sensual experience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053493824&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00335630.2011.608704
DO - 10.1080/00335630.2011.608704
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80053493824
SN - 0033-5630
VL - 97
SP - 363
EP - 386
JO - Quarterly Journal of Speech
JF - Quarterly Journal of Speech
IS - 4
ER -