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Godard and sound : acoustic innovation in the late films of Jean-Luc Godard / Albertine Fox.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.G63 F69 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Albertine, author.
- Series:
- International library of the moving image ; 42.
- International library of the moving image ; 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022--Criticism and interpretation.
- Godard, Jean-Luc.
- Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022.
- Sound in motion pictures--History and criticism.
- Sound in motion pictures.
- Motion picture music--History and criticism.
- Motion picture music.
- Motion pictures--Sound effects--History and criticism.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Sound effects.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
- Summary:
- Albertine Fox is Lecturer in French Film at the University of Bristol. She has published on film sound, music and voice in relation to Jean-Luc Godard's cinema and video art. Her articles have appeared in Studies in French Cinema, SEQUENCE, and Sight & Sound online and her article 'Constructing Voices in Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1979)' was awarded the 2014 Susan Hayward Prize by the Association for Studies in French Cinema. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Acoustic Spectatorship 1
- The concept of acoustic spectatorship 3
- A short history of spectatorship theory 5
- Organisation and structure 8
- 1 The Evolution of a New Sound Cinema 13
- Acousmatic sound and Pierre Schaeffer 14
- Godard's early sonic experiments 19
- The Sonimage years: Godard-Miéville's videographic thinking 22
- An act of montage: the formation of a musical approach 25
- 2 Constructing Voices: Sauve qui pent (la vie) (1979) and Scénario de Sauve qui pent (la vie) (1979) 29
- Video, Vertov and Schaeffer 31
- The film's musical foundation 35
- Filming the activity of listening 37
- Trompe l'oeil and the acousmêtre 39
- The aural presence of Marguerite Duras 43
- Hearing the silence of speed 45
- The final act: MUSIC and the acousmatic screen 48
- Conclusion 51
- 3 Sound, Body and Audible Space: Scénario du film Passion (1982), Passion (1982) and Prénom Carmen (1983) 53
- Scénario du film Passion: the two images of cinema 54
- Passion: musical figures and musicalised speech 58
- The absent portrait 64
- Prénom Carmen: a writing of sound 66
- Points of contact: the birth of gesture 68
- Seascapes: carving audible space 71
- Conclusion 81
- 4 Fragments of Time and Memory: Lettre à Freddy Buache (1981) and Puissance de la parole (1988) 83
- Lettre à Freddy Buache: the Buache-Boléro mechanism 84
- Handling sound and time 86
- Trickery and enchantment 88
- Gestures of return 91
- Puissance de la parole: the relations between 97
- Freezing time: sound, painting and photography 99
- Reconstructing Study from the Human Body 102
- Dancing between life and death 105
- Conclusion 109
- 5 Listening Through Curves: On s'est tons défilé (1987), Soigne ta droite: Une place sur la terre (1987) and King Lear (1987) 111
- Off-centre couplings: Cohen on Cohen 112
- Soigne ta droite: the spaces of performance 117
- Inside out: Ringer sings 'Tonite' 119
- Spectral space and the listening self 124
- The silence of listening 126
- King Lear and the multitrack ear 130
- Sounding voices and silent blanks 134
- A different vision: composing a new image 137
- Conclusion 140
- 6 A Land Out of Focus: Between Eye and Ear: JLG/JLG: Autoportrait de décembre (1995) and Nouvelle vague (CD, 1997) 143
- JLG/JLG: thinking with one's hands 146
- Hearing something new: an acoustic vision 148
- Bridge passage: UNE VAGUE NOUVELLE 154
- Nouvelle vague: mapping the sound of cinema 156
- Sound, space and the listener 161
- Conclusion 164
- 7 Acoustic Dystopias and Rhythms of Change: Film socialisme (2010) and Adieu au langage (2014) 167
- The spectator as transient participant 168
- A noisy space of deviation 172
- The moving site of cinema 179
- A metapoetic of language - Adieu au langage 181
- A swirling, progressive magic 184
- Conclusion 190
- Coda: Shadows and Sparks 193
- Codetta: Les trois désastres 196.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257), discography (page 261), filmography (pages 259-261), and index.
- ISBN:
- 1784538426
- 9781784538422
- OCLC:
- 964302443
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