Aesthetics of Early Sound Film: Media Change around 1930

Daniel Wiegand (Curatore)

Amsterdam University Press, 2023

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.

• Curatore: Daniel Wiegand
• Editore: Amsterdam University Press
• Collana: Cinema and Technology
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 308 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 730 gr.
• EAN: 9789463727372

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