'We're the Paran Maum': LInda Linda Linda, Aural Semiotics, and Sonic Identity

 *  Seth Mulliken (Villanova University)

Abstract:

This paper is an attempt to treat cinema sound as politicized and ideologically rich. Beginning with a critique of the scholarship that establishes the semiotics of cinema sound, I incorporate texts on sonic dominance and the role of female voice to define a semiotic, feminist counter-reading of cinema sound. Using this counter-reading on Nobuhiro Yamashita's 2005 film Linda Linda Linda, I conclude with an attempt to define a unique definition of subjectivity within cinema sound.