Aesthetics of Early Sound Film : : Media Change around 1930 /

Aesthetics of Early Sound Film : : Media Change around 1930 / / ed. by Daniel Wiegand.

This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on the films’ fundamentally experimental and inventive character. By considering films and production contexts often neglected in film studies, it strives to counter the still dominan...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Adorno, Maria,
Barnier, Martin,
Berry, Jessica,
Bulgakowa, Oksana,
Crafton, Donald,
Holtz, Martin,
Jacobs, Lea,
Leimbacher, Irina,
Loew, Katharina,
Nordström, Johan,
Schweinitz, Jörg,
Slowik, Michael,
Vafi, Nadine Soraya,
Wiegand, Daniel,
HerausgeberIn:
Wiegand, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Cinema and Technology ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. The Aesthetics of Early Sound Film: An Introduction
  • Part I: From Silence to Sound
  • 2. Dialogue Scenes in the Period of Multiple-Camera Shooting
  • 3. Expressive Visual Effects from Silent to Sound Film
  • 4. From the Lexigraphic to the Melomanic
  • Part II: From Theory to Practice
  • 5. “To Select, To Organize, To Sharpen”
  • 6. Futurists and ‘Homogenizers’ in Early Soviet Sound Film
  • Part III: National Contexts
  • 7. Early Japanese Sound Film Aesthetics at Shochiku and Nikkatsu
  • 8. Early Sound Films in France: Contexts and Experiments
  • 9. Reporters, Radio Waves, and the Dispersed Audience
  • Part IV: Speech and Language
  • 10. Talking Photographs
  • 11. Die Nacht gehört uns/La nuit est à nous and Multilingual Reception in Switzerland
  • 12. The Mimetic Attempt of Multiple Versions
  • Part V: Music and Noise
  • 13. “How Did the Music Get to the Fish Market?”
  • 14. The Sounds of War: Reflections on WWI Films of 1930
  • 15. Urban Noise in the Early Italian Sound Film Gli uomini, che mascalzoni …
  • General Bibliography
  • Index

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