Description
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 dominant view of the transitional period as a time of yet-to-be-perfected forerunners of 'classical' sound film. Instead, authors highlight the sense of 'fruitful uncertainty' in this period of media change and transformation. Subjects covered include visual and auditory style; the uses of speech, music, and noises; aesthetic conceptions in sound film theory; and intermedial aesthetics. The volume's scope is decidedly international, covering production and reception contexts in the Soviet Union, Japan, the USA, Germany, France, Italy, the UK, and Switzerland.
About the Author
Book Information
ISBN 9781041175292
Author Daniel Wiegand
Format Paperback
Page Count 308
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Series Cinema and Technology
About the Author
Daniel Wiegand is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at University of Zurich. He is the author of Gebannte Bewegung: Tableaux vivants und fruher Film in der Kultur der Moderne as well as co-editor of Film Bild Kunst: Visuelle AEsthetik im vorklassischen Stummfilm (edited with Joerg Schweinitz, 2016). Recent articles include "'Islands of Sound in the Silent Flow of Film:' German Part-Talkies Around 1930 as a Hybrid Medium," in Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (2022).
Book Information
ISBN 9781041175292
Author Daniel Wiegand
Format Paperback
Page Count 308
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Series Cinema and Technology
