Historical Markers of the Modern Soundtrack

1	Citizen Kane	1941 - Orson Welles (USA)
	Layers, levels & mixing	Orson Welles’ radiophonic legacy; distinctions & processes; radio as text; the gendered voice

2	The Birds	1963 - Alfred Hitchcock (USA)
	Volume, perspective & density	Hitchcock’s cinematic perversion; perception & comprehension; silence; physics, acoustics & grammar; rhythm

3	Playtime	1967 - Jacques Tati (France)
	Architecture & sonic space	Post-war Europe and building new cities; design form & purpose; aural/urban design; muzak

4	The Innocents	1961 – Jack Clayton (UK)
	Silence & breath	Ghostly acoustics; dimensional suggestion; altered mix states; possessed voices

5	Way of the Dragon	1972 - Bruce Lee (Hong Kong)
	Post-dubbing & the body	English language productions; foreign films; active dubbing; Hong Kong Kung- Fu movies

6	California Split	1974 - Robert Altman (USA)
	Voice, performance & live space	Robert Altman's sound-image fusion; noise & silence; vocal performance

7	Last Year In Marienbad	1960 - Alan Resnais (France)
	Textuality & vocal narration	The New Novel; monologues & dialogues; off-screen placement; spatial location

8	The Conversation	1972 - Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
	Distortion & misperception	Zones of audibility; private & public space; sonic stability; psycho-acoustics

9	Psycho	1960 - Alfred Hitchcock (USA)
	Psychological states & atonality	Profile - Bernard Herrmann; repetition & thematic structure; musical motifs

10	Once Upon A Time in the West	1968 - Sergio Leone (Italy)
	Opera, genre & theatre	Ennio Morrricone’s arrangements & recording; thematic song scoring; audio cues; self-reflexivity

11	West Side Story	1963 - Robert Wise (USA)
	Opera & lyric drama	Plasticity; mise-en-scene; transposition of stage musical; harmonic territorialization

12	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	1969 - Jacques Demy (France)
	Operetta & sung narrative	Jacques Demy & Michel Legrand collaborations; musical narration; aabsence of dialogue; pictorial synthesthesia

13	Suspiria	1977 - Dario Argento (Italy)
	Rock & synthesizer scores	Historical streams & distinctions; modern & contemporary developments; time lines

14	Metropolis	1921 - Fritz Lang + 1983 - Giorgio Moroder (Germany/Italy)
	Silent cinema & sound/image relations	Time frame of ‘silent’ cinema; sound & music in the silents; how sound film language develops

15	Kwaidan	1963 - Masaki Kobayashi (Japan)
	Synchronism & mysticism	Toru Takemitsu’s decompostions; collapsed music; Eastern sensibilities; conscious theatrics; sono-musical gesture