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Silence in the Land of Logos

Author : Silvia Montiglio
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823765
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Silence in the Land of Logos written by Silvia Montiglio and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the notion of silence is not a universal given but is rather situated in a complex network of associations and values, Montiglio seeks to establish general principles for understanding silence through analyses of cultural practices, including religion, literature, and law. Unlike the silence of a Christian before an ineffable God, which signifies the uselessness of words, silence in Greek religion paradoxically expresses the power of logos--for example, during prayer and sacrifice, it serves as a shield against words that could offend the gods. Montiglio goes on to explore silence in the world of the epic hero, where words are equated with action and their absence signals paralysis or tension in power relationships. Her other examples include oratory, a practice in which citizens must balance their words with silence in very complex ways in order to show that they do not abuse their right to speak. Inquiries into lyric poetry, drama, medical writings, and historiography round out this unprecedented study, revealing silence as a force in its own right.

Silence and Silences

Author : Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720509
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Silence and Silences written by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on the infinite search for meanings in silence, from Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, the author of The Other Side of the Tiber and Mother Tongue. We need quiet to feel nothing, to hear silence that brings back proportion and the beauty of not knowing except for the outlines of what we live every day. Something inner settles. The right to silence unmediated by social judgment. Sitting at a table in an empty kitchen, peeling an apple, I wait for its next transformation. For a few seconds, the red, mottled, dangling skin unwinds what happened to it on earth. Wallis Wilde-Menozzi set out to touch silence for brief experiences of what is real. In images, dreams, and actions, the challenge leads to her heart as a writer. The pages of Silence and Silences form a vast tapestry of meanings shaped by many forces outside personal circumstance. Moving closer, the reader notices intricacies that shift when touched. As the writer steps aside, there is cosmic joy, biological truth, historical injustice. The reader finds women’s voices and women’s silences, sees Agnes Martin’s thin, fine lines and D. H. Lawrence’s artful letters, and becomes a part of Wilde-Menozzi’s examination of the ever-changing self. COVID-19 thrusts itself into the unbounded narrative, and isolation brings with it a new kind of stillness. As Wilde-Menozzi writes, “Reading a book is a way of withdrawing into silence. It is a way of seeing and listening, of pulling back from what is happening at that very moment.” The author has created a record of how we tell ourselves stories, how we think and how we know. Above all, she has made silence a presence as rich as time on the page and given readers space to discover what that means to a life.

The Silence (movie tie-in edition)

Author : Tim Lebbon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1789090504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Silence (movie tie-in edition) written by Tim Lebbon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a gripping Netflix movie starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka. A suspenseful masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Tim Lebbon. In the darkness of a underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. As the hordes lay waste to Europe, a girl watches to see if they will cross the sea. Deaf for many years, she knows how to live in silence; now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can sit out the plague. But will it ever end? And what kind of world will be left?

The Shriek of Silence

Author : David Patterson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813194156
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Shriek of Silence written by David Patterson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter." So writes David Patterson in this profound and original study of more than thirty important writers. Contrary to existing views, he argues, the Holocaust novel is not an attempt to depict an unimaginable reality or an ineffable horror. It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul, to regenerate the relation between the self and God, the self and other, the self and itself. This book is less a critical study in the usual sense than an impassioned meditation on the deeper sources of the Holocaust novel. Among the authors examined are Elie Wiesel, Arnost Lustig, Aharon Appelfeld, Katzetnik 135633, Primo Levi, Yehuda Amichai, Piotr Rawicz, A. Anatoli, Saul Bellow, I.B. Singer, Anna Langfus, Rachmil Bryks, and Ilse Aichinger. The Shriek of Silence is a first in several respects: the first to examine the Holocaust novels in their original languages, the first to articulate a theoretical basis for its approach, and the first phenomenological investigation—one that attempts to penetrate the process of creation for these novelists. Organized along conceptual lines, the book examines "the word in exile," the themes of death of the father and the child, transformations of the self, and the implications of the reader. Its philosophical foundations are Rosenzweig, Buber, Neher, and Levinas. Its critical approach is shaped by Bakhtin. The novelists of the Holocaust, in witnessing through their words, regain their voices and in so doing are reborn. By probing the depths of their struggle, Patterson's study draws us too toward a higher understanding, perhaps even our own rebirth.

People of the Silence

Author : Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466817844
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book People of the Silence written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150 the Anasazi empire of the Southwest would see no equal in North America for almost eight hundred years. Yet even at this cultural zenith, the Anasazi held the seeds of their own destruction deep within themselves.... On his deathbed, the Great Sun Chief learns a secret, a shame so vile to him that even at the brink of eternity he cannot let it pass: In a village far to the north is a fifteen-summers-old girl who must be found. Though he knows neither her name nor her face, the Great Sun decrees that the girl must at all costs be killed. Fleeing for her life as her village lies in ruins, young Cornsilk is befriended by Poor Singer, a curious youth seeking to touch the soul of the Katchinas. Together, they undertake the perilous task of staying alive long enough to discover her true identity. But time is running out for them all--a desperate killer stalks them, one who is willing to destroy the entire Anasazi world to get to her. New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear bring the stories of these first North Americans to life in People of the Silence and other volumes in the magnicent North America's Forgotten Past series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dark Silence

Author : Katze Snow
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546663379
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Dark Silence written by Katze Snow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Galen was brought into this world to train slaves, not to want them. When his latest victim, a twenty-one-year-old boy named Tristan Kade, begins to see Claude for who he truly is, only one thing can be done to stop Tristan from escaping: punish him. Trapped in a padded white room with no windows or doors, all Tristan can do to stay alive in this world is to obey Professor Galen. Submit to him. Yield. Break. But what happens when Tristan's body is trained to work against him? When he starts to crave the pleasure instead of fear it? When he begins to see the man behind the monster?

Beware The Silence

Author : Wilhelm Hauff
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13811 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Beware The Silence written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 13811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press Publishing presents you this meticulously edited horror collection carefully selected gothic classics, greatest supernatural mysteries, ghost stories and macabre tales:_x000D_ Introduction: _x000D_ Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft_x000D_ Edgar Allan Poe:_x000D_ The Tell-Tale Heart _x000D_ The Murders in the Rue Morgue..._x000D_ Bram Stoker:_x000D_ Dracula_x000D_ The Jewel of Seven Stars..._x000D_ Mary Shelley:_x000D_ Frankenstein_x000D_ The Mortal Immortal..._x000D_ Gaston Leroux:_x000D_ The Phantom of the Opera_x000D_ Washington Irving:_x000D_ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow_x000D_ Rip Van Winkle..._x000D_ H. P. Lovecraft:_x000D_ The Call of Cthulhu_x000D_ The Dunwich Horror..._x000D_ Henry James:_x000D_ The Turn of the Screw..._x000D_ Arthur Conan Doyle:_x000D_ The Hound of the Baskervilles..._x000D_ Robert Louis Stevenson:_x000D_ Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde..._x000D_ H. G. Wells:_x000D_ The Island of Doctor Moreau_x000D_ Matthew Gregory Lewis:_x000D_ The Monk_x000D_ Ann Radcliffe:_x000D_ The Mysteries of Udolpho_x000D_ Wilkie Collins:_x000D_ The Woman in White_x000D_ The Haunted Hotel_x000D_ The Dead Secret..._x000D_ Charles Dickens:_x000D_ The Mystery of Edwin Drood_x000D_ The Hanged Man's Bride_x000D_ The Haunted House..._x000D_ Oscar Wilde:_x000D_ The Picture of Dorian Gray..._x000D_ Richard Marsh:_x000D_ The Beetle_x000D_ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:_x000D_ Carmilla_x000D_ Uncle Silas..._x000D_ Nikolai Gogol:_x000D_ Dead Souls..._x000D_ Rudyard Kipling:_x000D_ The Phantom Rickshaw..._x000D_ James Malcolm Rymer:_x000D_ Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street_x000D_ Robert E. Howard:_x000D_ Cthulhu Mythos_x000D_ The Weird Menace Stories..._x000D_ M. R. James:_x000D_ Ghost Stories of an Antiquary_x000D_ A Thin Ghost and Others_x000D_ John Meade Falkner:_x000D_ The Nebuly Coat_x000D_ The Lost Stradivarius_x000D_ Nathaniel Hawthorne:_x000D_ Rappaccini's Daughter_x000D_ The Birth Mark..._x000D_ Lucy Maud Montgomery:_x000D_ The Closed Door_x000D_ The Red Room..._x000D_ Edith Nesbit:_x000D_ The Ebony Frame_x000D_ From the Dead_x000D_ Jane Austen:_x000D_ Northanger Abbey_x000D_ Charlotte Brontë:_x000D_ Jane Eyre_x000D_ Emily Brontë:_x000D_ Wuthering Heights_x000D_ Mary Louisa Molesworth:_x000D_ The Shadow in the Moonlight..._x000D_ John Buchan:_x000D_ The Wind in the Portico_x000D_ Witch Wood_x000D_ Cleveland Moffett:_x000D_ The Mysterious Card_x000D_ Possessed_x000D_ George W. M. Reynolds:_x000D_ Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf_x000D_ Lafcadio Hearn:_x000D_ A Ghost..._x000D_ Jerome K. Jerome:_x000D_ Told After Supper_x000D_ Catherine Crowe:_x000D_ Ghosts and Family Legends_x000D_ H. H. Munro:_x000D_ The Wolves of Cernogratz_x000D_ John Kendrick Bangs:_x000D_ Ghosts That Have Haunted Me_x000D_ Francis Marion Crawford:_x000D_ The Dead Smile..._x000D_ Frederick Marryat:_x000D_ The Were-Wolf...

Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems

Author : Stéphane Devismes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030643484
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems written by Stéphane Devismes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2020, held in Austin, TX, USA, in November 2020. The 16 full papers, 7 short and 2 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers deal with the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment.

The Power of Silence

Author : Robert Sarah
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681497581
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Silence written by Robert Sarah and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."

Political Silence

Author : Sophia Dingli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351599585
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Political Silence written by Sophia Dingli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of ‘silence’ in Politics and International Relations has come to imply the absence of voice in political life and, as such, tends to be scholastically prescribed as the antithesis of political power and political agency. However, from Emma Gonzáles’s three minutes of silence as part of her address at the March for Our Lives, to Trump’s attempts to silence the investigation into his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, along with the continuing revelations articulated by silence-breakers of sexual harassment, it is apparent that there are multiple meanings and functions of political silence – all of which intersect at the nexus of power and agency. Dingli and Cooke present a complex constellation of engagements that challenge the conceptual limitations of established approaches to silence by engaging with diverse, cross-disciplinary analytical perspectives on silence and its political implications in the realms of: environmental politics, diplomacy, digital privacy, radical politics, the politics of piety, commemoration, international organization and international law, among others. Contributors to this edited collection chart their approaches to the relationship between silence, power and agency, thus positing silence as a productive modality of agency. While this collection promotes intellectual and interdisciplinary synergy around critical thinking and research regarding the intersections of silence, power and agency, it is written for scholars in politics, international relations theory, international political theory, critical theory and everything in between.

A History of Silence

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509517391
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book A History of Silence written by Alain Corbin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and forests. Yet despite the centrality of silence to some of our most intense experiences, the transformations of the twentieth century have gradually diminished its value. Today, raucous urban spaces and a continual bombardment from different media pressure us into constant activity. We are losing a sense of our inner selves, a process that is changing the very nature of the individual. This book rediscovers the wonder of silence and, with this, a richer experience of life. With his predilection for the elusive, Corbin calls us to listen to another history.

Silence

Author : Deb Maes
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504322649
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Silence written by Deb Maes and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book points to modern science for the understanding of the ancient practise of silence, and shows how you can become an unshakeable island of calm amidst the storms, noise and challenges of life. With a collection of simple exercises in the latter part of the book, silence is an any-moment practise you can start right now.

Sounds of Silence

Author : Jutta Hartmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0080466141
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sounds of Silence written by Jutta Hartmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a study of "empty elements" in language use.

The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence

Author : Hannah Quirk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113600808X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence written by Hannah Quirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing the right to silence. The right to silence has served as the practical expression of the principles that an individual was to be considered innocent until proven guilty, and that it was for the prosecution to establish guilt. In 1791, the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution proclaimed that none ‘shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself’. In more recent times, the privilege against self-incrimination has been a founding principle for the International Criminal Court, the new South African constitution and the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Despite this pedigree, over the past 30 years when governments have felt under pressure to combat crime or terrorism, the right to silence has been reconsidered (as in Australia), curtailed (in most of the United Kingdom) or circumvented (by the creation of the military tribunals to try the Guantánamo detainees). The analysis here focuses upon the effects of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in England and Wales. There, curtailing the right to silence was advocated in terms of ‘common sense’ policy-making and was achieved by an eclectic borrowing of concepts and policies from other jurisdictions. The implications of curtailing this right are here explored in detail with reference to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but within a comparative context that examines how different ‘types’ of legal systems regard the right to silence and the effects of constitutional protection.

Silence

Author : Robert Sardello
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 158394415X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Silence written by Robert Sardello and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the nature and benefits of silence as a new spiritual reality that can lead to self-awareness and healing in our chaotic, fast-paced world With its beautifully rich prose, Robert Sardello's newest book invites us to experience silence as a companion presence—a creative heart-felt experience that renews, restores, and deepens the body's response to the internal and external world. Drawing on images and ideas from the Trials of St. Anthony, anthroposophy, depth psychology, and phenomenology, the book delves deeply into the subtleties of silence, exploring the phenomenon as a source of wholeness and revitalization. Sharing his own insights from years of experience in spiritual psychology, Sardello takes us on an inner journey beyond the chaotic noise of the ego to a place of inner communion and self-healing. Silence opens our eyes to the importance of cultivating the nurturing aspects of silence in our personal relationships and enables us to awaken the inner currents of spirituality that ultimately lead to a path of universal compassion, service, and healing.

Speech and Silence in American Law

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487736
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Speech and Silence in American Law written by Austin Sarat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than abstract philosophical discussion or yet another analysis of legal doctrine, Speech and Silence in American Law seeks to situate speech and silence, locating them in particular circumstances and contexts and asking how context matters in facilitating speech or demanding silence. To understand speech and silence we have to inquire into their social life and examine the occasions and practices that call them forth and that give them meaning. Among the questions addressed in this book are: who is authorized to speak? And what are the conditions that should be attached to the speaking subject? Are there occasions that call for speech and others that demand silence? What is the relationship between the speech act and the speaker? Taking these questions into account helps readers understand what compels speakers and what problems accompany speech without a known speaker, allowing us to assess how silence speaks and how speech renders the silent more knowable.

The Sound of Silence

Author : Nancy Epton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Silence written by Nancy Epton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Silence explores how non-verbal communication in film, shown primarily through the acting of Ryan Gosling, provides an expressive space in which passive audience viewing is made more active by removing the expository signifier of dialogue. The German Expressionist era may have been brief, but the shadows cast since its end nonetheless loom large. The silhouetted, cigar-wielding men of film noir and their respectively dark, doom-laden haunts mirror the angst-inducing atmospheres of their forebearers, while also introducing the now-familiar figure of the silent hero. Considering the numerous silent hero actors in film history, there's one that stands out in the 21st century like no other: Ryan Gosling. His later career has seen some of the most iconic silent heroes of the past decade, with films such as Drive, Only God Forgives, Blade Runner 2049 and First Man cementing him as the go-to guy for a monosyllabic, taciturn and moody hero whose actions speak louder than words. This book argues that it is Gosling's expressive capabilities that keep audiences compelled by his performances. With the use of non-verbal silence – combined with its counterbalance, sound – a more active, emotive audience response can be achieved. Looking further into this idea through theorists such as Michel Chion and Susan Sontag, the book demonstrates that the sound of silence is one of the most meaningful cinematic sounds of all.