Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze & Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence

Expanding on a burgeoning area in contemporary film studies that explores visual and aural absences and interstices in film narrative, this book explores silences in the soundtrack – not ambient silence or so—called ‘room tone’ but complete sound drop—outs, as if the film projector had broken down, thereby jolting the audience out of their passive relationship to the screen, forcing them to become aware of their surroundings and the material apparatus of film as a mechanical device.
Drawing ...