French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 October 2018
- ISBN 9780190635978
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 160x239x17 mm
- Weight 596 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 line art; 79 screen stills 0
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Short description:
In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding French musical styles and genres shaped cinematic experiments during the transition to sound.
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The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that the debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding a range of French musical styles and genres shaped audiovisual cinematic experiments during the transition to sound.
Lewis' book focuses on many of the most prominent directors and screenwriters of the period, from Luis Buñuel to Jean Vigo, as well as experiments found in lesser-known films. Additionally, Lewis examines how early sound film portrayed the diverse soundscape of early 1930s France, as filmmakers drew from the music hall, popular chanson, modernist composition, opera and operetta, and explored the importance of musical machines to depict and to shape French audiovisual culture. In this light, the author discusses the contributions of well-known composers for film alongside more popular music hall styles, all of which had a voice within the heterogeneous soundtrack of French sound cinema. By delving into this fascinating developmental period of French cinematic history, Lewis encourages readers to challenge commonly-held assumptions about how genres, media, and artistic forms relate to one another, and how these relationships are renegotiated during moments of technological change.
The great value of Professor Lewis' book lies in the clarity with which she teases out the strands of the aesthetic arguments and the fruits of filmmakers' efforts to bring them into being, and the elegance of her arguments about music's roles in these various approaches to sound film.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1. Imagining Sound Film: Debates in the Press
2. Surrealist Sounds: Film Music and the Avant-Garde
3. "An achievement that reflects its native soil": Songs, Stages, Cameras, and the Opérette Filmée
4. Théâtre filmé, Opera, and Cinematic Poetry: The Clair/Pagnol Debate
5. Source Music and Cinematic Realism: Jean Renoir and the Early Poetic Realists
6. "The Music Has Something to Say": The Musical Revisions of L'Atalante (1934)
Conclusion: Alternative Paths for Sound Film
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