Godard and sound : acoustic innovation in the late films of Jean-Luc Godard / Albertine Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Albertine, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

International library of the moving image ; 42.

International library of the moving image ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930---Criticism and interpretation.

Godard, Jean-Luc.

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.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.

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

The concept of acoustic spectatorship

A short history of spectatorship theory

Organisation and structure

The Evolution of a New Sound Cinema

Acousmatic sound and Pierre Schaeffer

Godard's early sonic experiments

The Sonimage years: Godard-Miéville's videographic thinking

An act of montage: the formation of a musical approach

Constructing Voices: Sauve qui pent (la vie) (1979) and Scénario de Sauve qui pent (la vie) (1979)

Video, Vertov and Schaeffer

The film's musical foundation

Filming the activity of listening

Trompe l'oeil and the acousmêtre

The aural presence of Marguerite Duras

Hearing the silence of speed

The final act: MUSIC and the acousmatic screen

Conclusion

Sound, Body and Audible Space: Scénario du film Passion (1982), Passion (1982) and Prénom Carmen (1983)

Scénario du film Passion: the two images of cinema

Passion: musical figures and musicalised speech

The absent portrait

Prénom Carmen: a writing of sound

Points of contact: the birth of gesture

Seascapes: carving audible space

Fragments of Time and Memory: Lettre à Freddy Buache (1981) and Puissance de la parole (1988)

Lettre à Freddy Buache: the Buache-Boléro mechanism

Handling sound and time

Trickery and enchantment

Gestures of return

Puissance de la parole: the relations between

Freezing time: sound, painting and photography

Reconstructing Study from the Human Body

Dancing between life and death

Listening Through Curves: On s'est tons défilé (1987), Soigne ta droite: Une place sur la terre (1987) and King Lear (1987)

Off-centre couplings: Cohen on Cohen

Soigne ta droite: the spaces of performance

Inside out: Ringer sings 'Tonite'

Spectral space and the listening self

The silence of listening

King Lear and the multitrack ear

Sounding voices and silent blanks

A different vision: composing a new image

A Land Out of Focus: Between Eye and Ear: JLG/JLG: Autoportrait de décembre (1995) and Nouvelle vague (CD, 1997)

JLG/JLG: thinking with one's hands

Hearing something new: an acoustic vision

Bridge passage: UNE VAGUE NOUVELLE

Nouvelle vague: mapping the sound of cinema

Sound, space and the listener

Acoustic Dystopias and Rhythms of Change: Film socialisme (2010) and Adieu au langage (2014)

The spectator as transient participant

A noisy space of deviation

The moving site of cinema

A metapoetic of language

Adieu au langage

A swirling, progressive magic

Coda: Shadows and Sparks

Codetta: Les trois désastres.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257), discography (page 261), filmography (pages 259-261), and index.

ISBN:

9781350986633

1350986631

9781786722744

1786722747

9781786732743

1786732742

OCLC:

1139315342