Ithaca College

Andrew Utterson, assistant professor of screen studies, recently published an essay in the peer-reviewed journal Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

Entitled “Crossing Lines: The Sound of the Border in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil,” his article analyzes how Welles’s iconic 1958 film uses sound (music, sound effects, and sound-image relations) to explore the distinctive soundscape of the U.S.-Mexico border and construct an acoustic rendering of an imagined border subjectivity.