List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Aesthetics, Politics, and Intersections of Silence, Sound, and Immersion

Florian Freitag, Laura Katharina Mucke, Peter Niedermuller

Part I: Producing Silence

Dominic Zerhoch

1. Beyond Words: Auditive and Discursive Non-Normativity in Films of Urszula Antoniak

Tullio Richter-Hansen

2. Musical Immersion and Its Place of Silence

Fabian Kurze

3. Digital Movieloops

Anita Hafner

4. The Paradox of Musical Silence

Ioana Geanta

5. Silence as a Performative Means in Marina Abramovi?’s The Artist Is Present (New York, MoMA, 2010)

Karolina Zgraja

6. The Residence Within: Silence, Immersion, and Contemplative Play in Videogames

Damien Schlarb

Part II: On the Cusp between Sound and Silence

Helena Rapp, Elisabeth Sommerlad

7. The Shock of Silence: An Apporach to Philosophical Immersion in Media

Sebastian R. Richter

8. Moments of Silence in Life is Strange: Flow, Immersion, and Involvement as as Result of Lack of Gameplay

Michael Mosel

9. In the Eye of the Hurricane: How Silent Moments in The Big Short (2015) and Money Monster (2016) Configure Empathetic and Immersive Processes of Film Reception

Dieter Merlin

10. Broken Times of Silence: Choreographing Time in Once Upon a Time in the West

Saori Kanemaki

11. The Birth of the Talkies out of the Spirit of Silence: Alan Crossland’s The Jazz Singer (1927)

Heinz Hiebler

Part III: Reception, Context, Space

Helena Rapp, Elisabeth Sommerlad

12. The Silenced Reception Spaces of Theater and Cinema, Or: About the Politics of Silence as Immersive Experience

Laura Katharina Mucke, Patric Blaser

13. The Delightful Paradox: Towards an Aesthetics of Silence in Early Sound Films

Daniel Wiegand

14. Empty Times: Melodic Hardcore Punk and the Problem of Immersion

Clemens Spahr

15. The Depth of the Sea, the Depth of Listening, and the Figure of Isolde as Avatar

Gabriela Lendle

16. The Sounds of Magic: Silence, Sounds, and Immersion in Theme Parks

Florian Freitag