TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chie,Niita
AU  - Fumiaki,Itakura
AU  - Keiko,Sasagawa
AU  - Manabu,Ueda
AU  - Nordström,Johan
AU  - Raine,Michael
AU  - Shuhei,Hosokawa
AU  - Yohei,Nagato
TI  - The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan
SN  - 9789048525669
U1  - 791.430952 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Motion picture music
KW  - Japan
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sound in motion pictures
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - East Asia and North East Asia
KW  - Film Studies
KW  - Film, Media, and Communication
KW  - Radio and Television
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Japan
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Media history, transition to sound, cultural history, sound culture
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; 1 A Genealogy of Kouta eiga --; 2 Katsutarō’s Trilogy --; 3 Japanese Cinema and the Radio --; 4 Architecture of Sound --; 5 No Interpreter, Full Volume --; 6 The Image of the Modern Talkie Film Studio --; 7 The Dawn of the Talkies in Japan --; 8 The Early talkie frame in Japanese cinema --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan. Putting the cinema at the center of a "culture of the sound image", it restores complexity to a media transition that is often described simply as slow and reluctant. In that vibrant sound culture, the talkie was introduced on the radio before it could be heard in the cinema, and pop music adaptations substituted for musicals even as cinema musicians and live narrators resisted the introduction of recorded sound. Taken together, the essays show that the development of sound technology shaped the economic structure of the film industry and its labour practices, the intermedial relation between cinema, radio, and popular music, as well as the architecture of cinemas and the visual style of individual Japanese films and filmmakers
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048525669?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048525669
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048525669/original
ER  -