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The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan / ed. by Michael Raine, Johan Nordström.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048525669
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430952 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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