Aesthetics of early sound film : media change around 1930

"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 st...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Wiegand, Daniel (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]
Series:	Cinema and technology (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Subjects:	Sound motion pictures > History. Films sonores > Histoire. Films, cinema. Media studies. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Acoustics & Sound. Sound motion pictures Music of film and stage. Film, Media, and Communication FMC Film Studies FILM History HIS Media Studies MEDIA Film history, film aesthetics, media change, film sound

Table of Contents:

1. The aesthetics of early sound film: an introduction / Daniel Wiegand
I. From silence to sound. 2. Dialogue scenes in the period of multiple-camera shooting: the example of Arrowsmith / Lea Jacobs
3. Expressive visual effects from silent to sound film / Katharina Loew
4. From the lexigraphic to the melomanic: accommodations to sound in American studio animation / Donald Crafton
II. From theory to practice. 5. "To select, to organize, to sharpen": Rouben Mamoulian, sound film theory, and Applause / Michael Slowik
6. Futurists and 'homogenizers' in early Soviet sound film / Oksana Bulgakowa
III. National contexts. 7. Early Japanese sound film aesthetics at Shochiku and Nikkatsu / Johan Nordström
8. Early sound films in France: contexts and experiments / Martin Barnier
9. Reporters, radio waves, and the dispersed audience: staging the radio in early German sound cinema / Jörg Schweinitz
IV: Speech and language. 10. Talking photographs: the speaking subject in anglophone newsreel and documentary (1927-1936) / Irina Leimbacher
11. Die Nacht gehört uns / La nuit est à nous and multilingual reception in Switzerland / Jessica Berry
12. The mimetic attempt of multiple versions: language, voice, and transcultural talkies (1929-1932) / Maria Adorno
V. Music and noise. 13. "How did the music get to the fish market?" On the use of nondiegetic music in early German sound films / Daniel Wiegand
14. The sounds of war: reflections on American WWI films of 1930 / Martin Holtz
15. Urban noise in the early Italian sound film Gli uomini, che mascalzoni ... / Nadine Soraya Vafi.