To say that sound has long been a neglected subject in film studies has become something of a commonplace ‐ yet this is no longer true. Starting in the 1980s with a special edition of the journal ...Yale French Studies film scholars have increasingly paid attention to a wide range of issues concerning film sound: dialogue, music, effects, sound design, and silent cinema. Surprisingly however, the processes of digitisation that have radically transformed film production, distribution, and exhibition in the last 20 years have hardly been the subject of attention for scholars specialising in film sound. In this article I will argue that the lack of attention to digitisation in film sound theory is a direct result of the fact that the copy vs. representation debate was already more or less settled before digitisation garnered academic interest. I will introduce the metaphor of the ‘enhanced echo’ as a different take on the relationship between an original sound and its representation. More specifically, I will use the metaphor of the echo to allow for a new appreciation of the role of the original sound in the transformative process of film sound recording, distribution, and exhibition.
Sounds Familiar Fickers, Andreas; Aalbers, Jasper; Jacobs, Annelies ...
Soundscapes of the Urban Past,
03/2013, Letnik:
5
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
When Franz Biberkopf, the protagonist of Alfred Döblin’s novelBerlin Alexanderplatzsteps out of the prison in Tegel after four years of imprisonment, »the horrible moment« has arrived. Instead of ...being delighted about his reclaimed liberty, Biberkopf panics and feels frightened: »the pain commences«.¹ He is not afraid of his newly gained freedom itself, however. What he suffers from is the sensation of being exposed to the hectic life and cacophonic noises of the city – his »urban paranoia«.²
The tension between the individual and the city, between the inner life of a character and his metropolitan environment is of
Shifting Sounds Bijsterveld, Karin; Jacobs, Annelies; Aalbers, Jasper ...
Soundscapes of the Urban Past,
03/2013, Letnik:
5
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
In 2007, theAboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museumin Turku, Finland did something remarkable. It organized an exhibition on the history of the medieval town of Arboa Vetus which hardly made use of images, ...while also very few artefacts were put on display. The exhibition, entitled »Sound Ways«, was largely built around sound and text. As such it re-enacted the acoustic environment of Arboa Vetus by playing recordings, or »acoustic images« as the curators called them, in the rather dark museum basement harbouring the rudimentary remains of the town’s excavations. These recordings presented six medieval characters: a blacksmith, a fisherman’s
Book Reviews Aalbers, Jasper; Berry, Michael; Briley, Ron ...
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television,
20/3/1/, Letnik:
32, Številka:
1
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