Contemporary Traces of the Modern Soundtrack

1	Talk Radio	1987 - Oliver Stone (USA)
	Voice & ether	Wave transmission; ghost effects; vocal timbre; studio space design

2	Goodfellas	1992 - Martin Scorsese (USA)
	Dialogue & editing	Dialogue placement; drama through speech; voice-music mix dynamics; intensity

3	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	1970 - Russ Meyer (USA)
	Sound effects & editing	Rhythm and flow; bombast; cliche & icon; narrative congestion; cartoon sonics

4	Hail Mary	1985 - Jean Luc Godard (France)
	Symbolism & collage	Jean-Luc Godard & Francois Musy’s collaborations; musique concrete; silence, sound & space on the soundtrack; multiple symbolisms

5	Colors	1989 - Dennis Hopper (USA)
	Spatiality & frequency	Dolby Surround; planar & dimensional mixing; urbanism; bass; Hip Hop; slang; guns & death

6	Contact	2000 – Robert Zemeckis
	Transcendence & diffusion	Hyperspace & surround sound; dimensional transgression; radar and sonar activity

7	The Straight Story	2001 – David Lynch (USA)
	Aging & psychoacoustics	David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti collaborations; rumbles, sub-sonic swells & distended reverb; digital silence and deafness; muzak

8	Taxi Driver	1976 - Martin Scorsese (USA)
	Interiority & psychosis	Bernard Herrman & jazz; urban musicology; sonar cityscapes & psychological terrains; bodily gunshots

9	Stand By Me	1987 - Rob Reiner (USA)
	Voice & memory	Ellegaic devices; flashback & voice-over narration; musicological effect; the past of Rock’n’Roll

10	Some Kind of Wonderful	1985 - Howard Deutch (USA)
	Teen energy & rhythmic propulsion	Record production as score; private listening states; rhythmic cues

11	Oedipus Rex	1970 - Pier Palo Passolini (Italy)
	Myth & realism	Pier Palo Passolini’s politicization of Folk; vocalization of non-actors; source music; folk threads

12	Black River	1993 – Kevin Lucas (Australia)
	Landscape & contemporary opera	Political/musical clash; terrain, colonialism & musical occupation; vocalising oppression

13	One From the Heart	1983 - Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
	Artificialism & modern opera	Hollywood unreality; location & fabrication; production design & staging; sung voice-over

14	Heat	1995 – Michael Mann (USA)
	Ambience & musical vaporization	Michael Mann & the MTV-effect; hovering chords, impressions of instruments & transparent sonic textures; fusing styles

15	Magnolia	1999 – P.T. Anderson (USA)
	Song form & vocal multiplicity	Song scoring; antiphonal structures and psychological dissonance; performance