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Sounding Cinema

Nathan Platte joins University of Iowa students to explore how film music and sound transport us, building worlds beyond what we see on screen. Sounding Cinema hosts conversations among students and authors to show how soundscapes shape our relationships to characters, story, and film itself.

tv & film film history

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00:52:24

(Stop) Making Sense of Concert Films

Sounding Cinema ·

2025/09/02

Concert films show us how musicians make their music, but they also help us hear that music differently. In this episode, we break down how this works in the concert film classic, Talking Heads’ and Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (1984). More about the student team: Luke Heying is a University of Iowa senior (’25) majoring inEconomics with a minor in Music. Abbie McLaren is a University of Iowa senior (’25) doublemajoring in Cinema and Journalism. Will Sinak is a University of Iowa senior (’25)

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00:41:08

The Sound of Silents and Marc Ribot's Music for...

Sounding Cinema ·

2025/04/26

What is it like to hear and see a live musician accompany a silent film? Luke Heying, Abbie McLaren, Will Sinak, and Nathan Platte tackle that question in this episode by exploring guitarist Marc Ribot’s live musical accompaniment to Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) at FilmScene in Iowa City. We talk about the experience of drinking in Ribot’s brilliantly eclectic soundscape for a silent-era science fiction odyssey. More about the team:Luke Heying is a University of Iowa senior majoring in Economics

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00:24:45

Once More, With Song: The Musical Television Episode

Sounding Cinema ·

2024/07/23

Sounding Cinema turns to the musical television episode! Erika Chagdes, Abbie McLaren, Caleb Payne, and Nathan Platte spotlight the unique and often comedic opportunities that arise when a TV series turns into a musical…for just one episode. By comparing “Once More, With Feeling,” the infamous musical episode from Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, with “Regional Holiday Music,” Community’s glee-ful fiasco, we discover some ways in which TV musicals can teach us a lot about musicals and the episodic format

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00:53:29

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and 'The Young...

Sounding Cinema ·

2024/07/09

Sounding Cinema returns to the immersive musicals of Jacques Demy, exploring the serious whimsy and peculiar pairs of The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). Join Abbie McLaren, Caleb Payne, and Nathan Platte as we discuss the ways in which Demy’s film, Michel Legrand's music, and Agnès Varda’s documentary about the film play with and against the formula of the Hollywood studio musical. Special thanks to: Samuel Ross, who wrote and recorded original and adapted music for the episode. Erika

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00:33:41

Jack Curtis Dubowsky on the Legacy of Easy Listening...

Sounding Cinema ·

2022/06/16

Cecilia Kryzda and Nathan Platte talk with Jack Curtis Dubowsky about his recent book, Easy Listening and Film Scoring, 1948-1978 (Routledge, 2021). A composer, performer, and scholar, Jack illuminates the vast and underappreciated opportunities easy listening provided film composers and how certain styles and habits shaped later music and film practices. Jack also explains the process of writing the book, including his inspiration behind the project and how his vision for the book changed over

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00:33:22

Shades of Quiet in Sound of Metal

Sounding Cinema ·

2021/09/28

Rebekah Erdman, Cecilia Kryzda, Anastasia Scholze, and Noah Zahradnik return to Sounding Cinema to discuss Sound of Metal (2020), a film that challenges its central character--a musician-- to listen differently to the sounds and silences that define daily life and the relationships within it.

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00:39:56

The Unceasing Melodies of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Sounding Cinema ·

2021/08/23

Sounding Cinema welcomes Rebekah Erdman, Cecilia Kryzda, Anastasia Scholze, and Noah Zahradnik to discuss The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Sound of Metal (2020), two titles that push film sound to its extremes. In the first of a two-part series, we consider how director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand unsettle a strikingly realistic story by having the characters sing all their lines.

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00:55:19

West Side Story, Part II: Capturing the Sounds of...

Sounding Cinema ·

2021/05/11

Many of the songs in West Side Story feature the dubbed voices of uncredited ghost singers. We illuminate how West Side Story's use of "ghosts" differs from other musicals of the era and alters the screen-sound relationship. We also turn our ears toward the people responsible for giving WSS's dance sequences their distinctive sonic textures.

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00:41:53

West Side Story and the Extraordinary Sound of Robert...

Sounding Cinema ·

2021/02/15

Nathan Platte and Anastasia Scholze embark on a two-part exploration of the 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story. After surveying the extraordinary career of WSS director Robert Wise, they welcome Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz (author of West Side Story as Cinema) to talk about how the film’s story and sound make it an enduring cultural touchstone.

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00:02:31

Introducing Sounding Cinema

Sounding Cinema ·

2021/02/10

Join Nathan Platte and Anastasia Scholze as they explore how music and sound draw us closer to film. First stop: the shifting soundscapes of Robert Wise's films (West Side Story, The Haunting, The Andromeda Strain, Odds Against Tomorrow, and many more).

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