Film sound in Italy : listening to the screen / Antonella C. Sisto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sisto, Antonella C., 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound motion pictures--Italy--History--20th century.

Sound motion pictures.

Dubbing of motion pictures--Italy.

Dubbing of motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Italy.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Considering films as audio-visual creations opens new inroads into the cultural practice, politics, and aesthetics of the soundtrack. This book is critical and trans-disciplinary engagement with cinema in Italy that examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach to film politics and practices from the coming of sound to the screen in the Fascist era, through the work of post WWII neorealist directors, to art cinema directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic, demonstrating how this translates into a shift of canonical narratives and interpretations. Listening functions as a fundamental critical tool that permits viewers to detect the interplay of technological productions, historical contingencies, and mediations that coalesce within the political and aesthetical track of sound at the movies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Sounding fascism in cinema

Dubbing in deed, and listening to dubbing

Cinema talks: between "make believe" and schizophonia

The soundtrack after fascism: the neorealist play without sound

Michelangelo Antonioni, the wind is photogenic

Pier Paolo Pasolini's thousand notes of contestation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137387707

113738770X

OCLC:

862148884