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Slowik, Michael James. "Hollywood film music in the early sound era, 1926-1934." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3191.
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This dissertation traces the history of the early Hollywood sound score for feature films between the years 1926 and 1934. In the growing literature on film sound, no topic has enjoyed more attention than film music. Yet film music scholars have almost uniformly written off film music in the early sound era (1926-1932). Believing the use of "nondiegetic" music (music without a source in the image) in the early sound era to be minimal, scholars have posited a striking narrative in which King Kong, released in 1933, burst onto the scene featuring a score that single-handedly revolutionized film music practices and paved the way for the heavily studied Golden Age of film music (1935-1950). In fact, a host of film scores preceded King Kong, scores which with rare exceptions have received no attention. Due to this inattention, scholars have mischaracterized the nature of late 1920s and early 1930s sound film, overlooked important and unusual early sound film music strategies and failed to offer any satisfactory account for the rise of the Golden Age of film music.
Based on screenings of hundreds of early sound films, I demonstrate that the early sound era featured a wide array of musical approaches rather than a single-minded avoidance of nondiegetic music. Drawing upon musical techniques from opera, melodrama, musicals, phonography, radio, and silent films, the early sound era featured an eclectic mix of accompaniment practices. Though early synchronized sound films largely adhered to a silent film music model, the advent of synchronized dialogue encouraged the use of several other conflicting musical accompaniment models. The late 1920s featured a substantial reduction in musical accompaniment, but the period still contained a diverse array of film score experiments rather than a total avoidance of nondiegetic music. By the early 1930s, a more consistent musical approach emerged, in which music was tied to unfamiliar settings or heightened internal mental states. This tactic exerted a considerable influence on King Kong's score and continued to be influential on musical accompaniment practices in the classical era.
The first chapter surveys a range of musical influences available to film music practitioners in the years leading up to the transition to sound. Chapter two then analyzes the film score in early synchronized films and part-talkies from 1926-1929, while chapter three examines the use of music in "100% talkies" from 1928-1931. After chapter four discusses the special case of the film score in the early musical from 1929-1932, chapter five examines the score for non-musicals from 1931 to just before the release of King Kong in April of 1933. In light of the plethora of pre-King Kong scores discussed in this study, chapter six offers a radical revision of King Kong's contribution to film music history. Finally, the Conclusion examines the early sound score's legacy in the Golden Age of film music.
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Allison, Deborah. "Promises in the dark : opening title sequences in American feature films of the sound period." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247223.
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Akça, Deniz. "Mapping Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue : uncovering the traces of female ethnicity in Turkish film, architecture and sound through fine art practice." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/12373/.
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This practice-led research investigates the problematic representations of women from ethnic minorities in the context of Turkey. It questions the ways in which Turkish cinema conceals the ‘other’ ethnic and cultural differences and represents female identity. It seeks to address this problem through newly created artworks: a series of animation and video works aiming to evoke traces of ‘other’ female ethnicities in Turkish society. The case study, Istiklal Avenue,is an important location that was formerly inhabited by ethnic minorities and was the birthplace of Turkish cinema (Yeşilçam) in 1914. This location forms a platform for the research to find new forms of representation through spatial mappings in the specially created artworks. The thesis is situated in relation to the existing literature on historical representations, from the late nineteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul to the period that marks the Istanbul Pogrom (1955), and to contemporary representations of women, especially Asuman Suner and Gönül Dönmez-Colin’s analyses of non-Muslim women in New Turkish Cinema. The methodological approach of the thesis is shaped by the investigation of Turkish cinema and site-specific research at Istiklal Avenue. Svetlana Boym’s (2001) idea that cultural references are usually hidden within the details of ‘reflective nostalgia’films is an important concept which is referred to throughout the thesis. The term ‘shock effect’, which Suner (2010) employs for Turkish reflective nostalgia films, is used in the thesis to describe moments of rupture in the collective memory and consciousness of Turkish society regarding the histories of the ethnic and religious minorities of Turkey. Visual and aural dissonances are created in the artworks to evoke traces of these histories. The first artwork uses the voice-over of the female protagonist Madame Lena in the film Whistle If You Come Back (1993)to create an audio-visual and spatial map for these repressed identities, but the female voice in the final artwork generates a more intensified evocative experience, described by adopting Catherine Clément’s term ‘rapture’ (1994). The research also looks at the difference between ethnic identities through the spoken Turkish of ethnic minorities of an older generation, to explore the viewing of the artworks in different cultural contexts. As well as theoretical and historical research into the female voice,architectural and other visual details are used as research material to make artworks. On-site investigations reveal how various film techniques and montages inform cognitive and psychogeographic mapping, which is put into practice to achieve a spatial understanding of Istiklal Avenue. This investigation leads to the discovery of Botter House, a culturally and historically significant building,which enables the thesis to examine female presence in public space by investigating the flâneuse of the nineteenth-century Istiklal Avenue. Through the artworks, this study proposes that spatial representations, reconstructed from visual and vocal details,can contribute to the representation of repressed ethnic identities, and can question the politics of the representation of ethnic minority women in Turkey.
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Wielgus, Alison Lynn. "You had to have been there : experimental film and video, sound, and liveness in the New York underground." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4794.
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You Had to Have Been There challenges the role of fetishistic materiality throughout Film Studies using the history of New York underground film and video production from 1965 to 1985. It focuses on four situations of underground film and video production and exhibition: the relationship between Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground's Exploding Plastic Inevitable and the Film-makers' Cinematheque, the screening of Michael Snow's Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen at Anthology Film Archives, the production of work by Ed Emshwiller, Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bill Viola, and other artists at WNET's Television Laboratory, and the exhibition of No Wave Cinema by Beth and Scott B, Lizzie Borden, Vivienne Dick, John Lurie, James Nares, and others at Max's Kansas City, the Mudd Club, and the New Cinema.
This project uses the above exhibition sites to argue for the importance of liveness and presence in recording media, considering the affect of liveness not only on our definitions of cinema, but also on the relationship between cinema and historiography. While a canon of experimental film has emerged within Film Studies, determined by the alignment of experimental filmmakers and the academy, this dissertation carves out an alternate corpus of works screened in non-traditional environments. It finds an affinity between such spaces and the project of post-classical apparatus theory, both of which challenge the regimented space of traditional film spectatorship.
The films and videos of this project are connected by two crucial elements: their location in New York City and their attention to sound. The personnel involved in the creation and reception of these films and videos constitute a network forum, or a group of artists who use the spaces of reception and production to reconfigure assumptions about film and video. Some of these spaces share direct links and touchstones, while others are tied together by shared concerns. One shared concern is a critical approach to the relationship between sound and image within cinema. Michael Snow and the filmmakers of the No Wave use pre-existing ideologies of sound to challenge cinematic presence and absorptive spectatorship while embracing the limits of subcultural spectatorship. The Exploding Plastic Inevitable and the Television Laboratory embrace sound's power as present, reorienting our perspective on the relationship between technology and the body. Taken together, these exhibition sites argue for the importance of sound and liveness in understanding experimental film history. They also suggest alternative modes of spectatorship that might hold productive power in our current media environment of hyper-reproduction and communicative capitalism.
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Frisvold, Hanssen Eirik. "Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema : Origins, Functions, Meanings." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1261.
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This dissertation is a historical and theoretical study of a number of discourses examining colour and cinema during the period 1909 to 1935 (trade press, film reviews, publications on film technology, manuals, catalogues and theoretical texts from the era). In this study, colour in cinema is considered as producing a number of aesthetic and representational questions which are contextualised historically; problems and qualities specifically associated with colour film are examined in terms of an interrelationship between historical, technical, industrial, and stylistic factors, as well as specific contemporary conceptions of cinema. The first chapter examines notions concerning the technical, material, as well as perceptual, origins of colour in cinema, and questions concerning indexicality, iconicity, and colour reproduction, through focusing on the relationship between the photographic colour process Kinemacolor, as well as other similar processes, and the established non-photographic colour methods during the early 1910s, with an in-depth analysis of the Catalogue of Kinemacolor Film Subjects, published in 1912. The second chapter examines notions concerning the stylistic, formal and narrative functions of colour in cinema, featuring a survey of the recurring comparisons between colour and sound, found in the writing of film history, in discourses concerning early Technicolor sound films, film technology, experimental films and experiments on synaesthesia during the 1920s, as well as Eisenstein’s notions of the functions of colour in sound film montage. The third chapter examines the question of colour and meaning in cinema through considering the relationship between colours and objects in colour film images (polychrome and monochrome, photographic and non-photographic) during the time frame of this study.
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Goulart, Isabella Regina Oliveira. "Perdidos na tradução: as representações da latinidade e as versões em espanhol de Hollywood no Brasil (1929-1935)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27161/tde-10072018-153045/.
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Esta tese aborda a circulação no Brasil de versões em espanhol produzidas por estúdios de Hollywood nos primeiros anos do cinema sonoro. Procuramos identificar nestes filmes algumas representações que os produtores norte-americanos vincularam à identidade latina. Temos o Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo como recorte geográfico, a partir da pesquisa histórica de recepção nas revistas Cinearte e A Scena Muda e nos jornais Correio da Manhã e O Estado de São Paulo. Entre 1930 e 1935, esses periódicos mencionaram uma série de produções hollywoodianas em língua espanhola, que nossas revistas consideraram inferiores aos filmes originais em inglês devido à barreira da língua e aos padrões de qualidade cinematográficos estabelecidos. Visamos demonstrar como a recepção das versões pela imprensa carioca e paulistana marcou o distanciamento que alguns grupos de nossa elite cultural projetavam em relação à América Latina, bem como um espelhamento nos Estados Unidos, afirmando uma relação imperialista pela via da cultura.This dissertation approaches the circulation in Brazil of the Spanish-language versions produced by Hollywood Studios in the early years of sound cinema and aim to identify in these films some representations of Latinidad made by American producers. The cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo constitute the geographic approach. The magazines Cinearte and A Scena Muda, and the newspapers Correio da Manhã and O Estado de São Paulo were the main reference for the historical research. Between 1930 and 1935 these journals mentioned some Hollywood Spanish-language productions, which Brazillian magazines considered worse than the original English-language films because of the language barrier and the established film quality standards. This work aims to demonstrate how the reception of the Spanish-language versions by the Brazilian press marked the distancing that some groups of Brazil´s cultural elite projected towards Latin America, as well as a mirroring in the United States. It marks an imperialist relation through culture.
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McGinney, William Lawrence. "The Sounds of the Dystopian Future: Music for Science Fiction Films of the New Hollywood Era, 1966-1976." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9839.
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Stober, JoAnne. "That's not what I heard, synchronized sound cinema in Montreal, 1926-1931." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ64013.pdf.
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Juan, Myriam. ""Aurons-nous un jour des stars ?" : une histoire culturelle de vedettariat cinématographique en France (1919-1940)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010705.
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Les vedettes de cinéma sont apparues entre la fin des années 1900 et le début des années 1910,mais c’est au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, avec la création des premières publications spécialisées à destination du public, que le vedettariat cinématographique achève de se constituer en France. Envisageant le phénomène comme un système économique, social et culturel couvrant l’ensemble des domaines constitutifs du cinéma (de la production à la réception), cette thèse étudie la mise en place du vedettariat cinématographique français de 1919 à la défaite de juin 1940. La période débute sur le constat de la domination des films américains portés par le succès de leurs stars, qui contraste avec les difficultés du cinéma français auxquelles les contemporains associent un manque de rayonnement des vedettes. Vingt ans plus tard, la popularité de ces dernières est incontestable et leur rôle dans le fonctionnement de l’industrie cinématographique est devenu capital, suivant un modèle bien différent toutefois de celui en vigueur à Hollywood pour lequel perdure la fascination des Français. Entretemps, le cinéma muet a cédé la place au cinéma parlant, une évolution dont ce travail tente d’évaluer précisément l’impact sur le vedettariat. Dans la perspective d’une histoire culturelle du cinéma en France,confrontant la perception des systèmes étrangers et celle du système français, analysant les pratiques autant que les discours, ce sont ainsi les représentations et les enjeux dont est alors porteur le vedettariat cinématographique que cette recherche entreprend d’appréhenderMovie stars came into being at the end of the 1900s and the beginning of the 1910s, but it is notuntil the end of the First World War that the star system became a reality in France, thanks to the creation of the first fan magazines. Regarding the economic, social and cultural aspects of the phenomenon, which covers every area of the cinema (from production to reception), this thesis studies how the French star system was established between 1919 and the Fall of France in June1940. At the beginning of the period the American movies and their stars dominate in France; instark contrast, the difficulties of French cinema are related to the weakness of its stars – its“vedettes” as the French say. Twenty years later, French movie stars have become unquestionably popular and they play a key part in the film industry, although they are involved in a system very different from the Hollywood one, which still fascinates French people. In the middle of this period, there occurred the transition to sound, an evolution whose impact on thestar system this thesis tries to determine precisely. Thus, this research in cultural history compares the way the French system and its rivals are seen, and it analyses both discourses and practices in order to explain the representations and the issues related to the movie star system in France during the period
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Davies, Llewellyn Willis. "‘LOOK’ AND LOOK BACK: Using an auto/biographical lens to study the Australian documentary film industry, 1970 - 2010." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154339.
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While much has been written on the Australian film and television
industry, little has been presented by actual producers,
filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within
that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it
has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the
debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the
gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion,
synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution
from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insightful.
The thesis is presented in two voices. First, my voice, the
voice of memoir and recollected experience of my screen
adventures over 38 years within the Australian industry, mainly
producing historical documentaries for the ABC and the SBS. This
is represented in italics. The second half and the alternate
chapters provide the industry framework in which I worked with
particular emphasis on documentaries and how this evolved and
developed over a 40-year period, from 1970 to 2010.
Within these two voices are three layers against which this
history is reviewed and presented. Forming the base of the
pyramid is the broad Australian film industry made up of feature
films, documentary, television drama, animation and other types
and styles of production. Above this is the genre documentary
within this broad industry, and making up the small top tip of
the pyramid, the sub-genre of historical documentary. These form
the vertical structure within which industry issues are
discussed. Threading through it are the duel determinants of
production: ‘the market’ and ‘funding’.
Underpinning the industry is the involvement of government, both
state and federal, forming the three dimensional matrix for the
thesis. For over 100 years the Australian film industry has
depended on government support through subsidy, funding
mechanisms, development assistance, broadcast policy and
legislative provisions.
This thesis aims to weave together these industry layers, binding
them with the determinants of the market and funding, and
immersing them beneath layers of government legislation and
policy to present a new view of the Australian film industry.
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Austin, Travis R. "Laminated PAINT." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5462.
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Though we may not perceive it, we are surrounded by material-in-flux. Inert materials degrade and the events that comprise our natural and social environments causally thread into a duration that unifies us in our incomprehension. Sounds reveal ever-present vibrations of the landscape: expressions of the flexuous ground on which we stand.
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Kang, Chang Il. "Les débuts du cinéma en Corée : entre projection et spectacle vivant." Thesis, Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080032.
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Cette recherche est une étude sur les débuts de l'histoire du cinéma en Corée des premières projections de films dans ce pays jusqu'en 1935, année pendant laquelle les Coréens ont commencé à produire des films parlants. Dans la première partie, nous avons étudié l’arrivée du cinéma en Corée, quand et par qui il a été introduit dans ce pays. Puis, quels films ont été vus par le public coréen et quels effets ils ont produits sur ce public.Dès les premiers temps du cinéma, chaque région du monde a essayé de surmonter les manques du film muet. Aussi, la deuxième partie s’intéresse à la particularité de la projection des premiers films muets en Corée. Le mot « spectacle cinématographique » se réfère, d’abord, à la représentation de films dans les premiers temps des débuts du cinéma. Le spectacle cinématographique sous-entend la possibilité d’un accompagnement supplémentaire, surtout sonore. En effet, les premiers films étaient « muets » et le moyen de mettre du son sur la pellicule n’avait pas encore été trouvé. De plus, souvent, il y avait aussi un concert ou un court spectacle secondaire (clown, bonimenteur, etc.) pendant, avant ou même après la projection des films. Cet ensemble autour de la projection de films représentait un véritable « spectacle cinématographique ». Nous avons étudié ce spectacle mixte présenté depuis 1919 à Séoul en Corée, et qui combine concert, projections de films, théâtre occidental moderne et boniment appelé Chosŏn Sinp'a Hwaltong Yŏnswaegŭk ou Chosŏn Kino-drama.Dans la troisième partie, nous avons présenté et analysé les données sur les films muets coréens dont nous avons pu retrouver les tracesThis research is a study of the history of cinema in Korea from the first motion pictures screenings until 1935, the year in which Koreans began making their talking films.In the first part, we study the arrival of cinema in Korea, when and by whom was the motion picture introduced in this country. Then, what films were seen by the Korean public and what effects they had on this audience. From the early times of cinema, the diverse regions of the world have tried to overcome the lack of the silent motion picture. The second part is focused on the specificity of the first silent motion pictures screenings in Korea. The Spectacle cinématographique can refer to the form of the representation of the motion pictures in the early days of cinema. The word Spectacle cinématographique implies the possibility of an additional accompaniment, especially the sound. The first films were "silent" and the way of putting sound on films had not been found yet. At that time, there was a concert or a short secondary show (clown, pitch, etc.) during, before or even after the screening of the films. We study the Spectacle cinématographique called Chosŏn Sinp'a Hwaltong Yŏnswaegŭk or Chosŏn Kino-drama which was presented since 1919 in Korea that combines the pitch, the concert, the modern western theater and the motion pictures screenings.In the third part, we report all the data concerning silent Korean films of which we still found the traces
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Gille, Quentin. "Propositions pour un paradigme culturel de la phono-cinématographie: des phono-scènes aux vidéoclips et au-delà." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209309.
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La proposition centrale de cette thèse est double. D’une part, il s’agit de jeter les bases d’un modèle historique qui réunirait tous les dispositifs audiovisuels qui associent des images animées à une chanson populaire qui leur est préexistante sous un même paradigme culturel que nous baptiserons « phono-cinématographie ». Celui-ci aurait débuté vers la fin du XIXe siècle, avec l’invention du kinétoscope d’Edison, pour aboutir à nos jours avec l’émergence des vidéos musicales interactives sur Internet. D’autre part, il s’agit de nous interroger sur le rôle a priori central que les Beatles occupent au sein de cette histoire de la chanson populaire mise en image. Notre hypothèse principale est que le vidéoclip, tel qu’il s’est institutionnalisé au début des années 1980 pour ensuite se perpétuer jusque dans les années 2000, n’a rien d’une pratique culturelle (voir même d’un média) figé(e) :bien au contraire, cette pratique/ce média a été l’objet de réélaborations continues tant sur le plan de la production, de la diffusion que de la fonction.Notre approche se situe à cheval sur l’histoire du cinéma, de la musique populaire et de la télévision. En nous appuyant sur certaines propositions théoriques et certains concepts formulés dans le champ des études cinématographiques ainsi que dans le champ des performance studies, nous serons particulièrement attentif aux questions de représentation qui se déploient dans ces différents dispositifs phono-cinématographiques :à savoir, les premiers films chantants (les phono-scènes Gaumont et les Vitaphone shorts), les juke-boxes équipés d’un écran (les Soundies et les Scopitones) et enfin les vidéos musicales télévisées (les films promotionnels et les vidéoclips).
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Daubresse, Louis. "Esthétique(s) du silence dans le cinéma contemporain : histoire, héritage et discontinuités." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA132.
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Pris dans son acception la plus large, le silence est un concept polysémique et mobile, tendant à la fois vers l'idée de néant, ou, a contrario, de plénitude. Souvent évoqué et débattu, le silence au cinéma semble toucher un point fondamental du langage audiovisuel. S'il peut être incarné de différentes manières à l'écran, il passe avant tout par une diminution (à défaut d'une disparition complète) de la présence de paroles, de musiques et, plus rarement, de bruits. Présent, plus que jamais auparavant, dans un certain cinéma contemporain, le silence y apparaît en des figures variées, selon différents dispositifs (personnages mutiques, lieux désaffectés, rares paroles dépourvues de sens, étirement des temps faibles du récit). Pour étudier ces figures, il faut d'abord s'interroger, en une approche archéologique, sur les origines du silence cinématographique, sur son parcours esthétique dans le cinéma parlant (notamment dans les films de genre ou dans ceux de la modernité) avant d'en dessiner les enjeux poétiques et politiques dans les fictions contemporaines de Sharunas Bartas, de Pedro Costa, de Béla Tarr ou de Tsaï Ming-liang. Une présence invisible à l’intérieur même de ces films peut enfin être vue, écoutée et révélée. Le silence agit directement sur le rythme de ces films, renforçant l’impression de durée et induisant la sensation de dilatation temporelle. De la même façon, il peut participer à une forme de mélancolie ou de vacuité. Nous pourrons enfin nous demander si le silence implique un refus de l'état des choses, s'il revendique une nouvelle relation au monde et s'il invite à nous projeter vers un temps post-catastrophique où la parole n’aurait plus de sens. Y aurait-il ainsi, au travers de sa mise en scène, une dimension anthropologique, critique et historique du silence ?In its broadest sense, silence is a polysemous and fluctuating concept, tending towards the idea of void and, at the same time, of plenitude. The concept of silence in cinema is frequently mentioned if not discussed, and seems to address a fundamental issue of the audiovisual language. It can be incarnated in different ways on screen, but systematically goes along with a reduction (when not a complete loss) of words, music and more rarely noises. More present than ever in some contemporary cinema, silence is represented by different figures, through different means (silent characters, disused places, rare and bland words, tensionless scenes lengthening). To study these figures, we first have to examine - through an archeological approach - the origins of silence in cinema, its aesthetical evolution in talking movies (especially in genre films and modern films). Then, we will be able to discern the poetical and political issues in the contemporary fictions of Sharunas Bartas, Pedro Costa, Béla Tarr or Tsaï Ming-liang. Therefore, the invisible presence in these films would be seen, listened to, then unveiled. Silence directly acts on the rhythm of these films, strengthening the duration feeling and generating the idea of time dilatation. In the same way it can be responsible for the emergence of some melancholia or vacuity. We will finally be able to wonder if silence implies a resistance in regards to the state of things, if it puts forwards a new relationship to the world and if it invites us to look towards a post-catastrophic time where words would be nothing but bland. Could we find out an anthropological, critical and historical dimension of silence through its dramatization ?
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Dojs, Marek Ryszard. "Sights and Sounds of the Mysterious Side of Myself." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11050/.
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This film is an autobiographical documentary which tells the story of the process of documenting the filmmaker's trip to his land of heritage. As his plans for his journey and film begin to go awry, he begins to question the entire process of trying to connect with nation and place.
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Mai, Nadin. "The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22990.
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Aiming to make an intervention in both emerging Slow Cinema and classical Trauma Cinema scholarship, this thesis demonstrates the ways in which the post-trauma cinema of Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz merges aesthetics of cinematic slowness with narratives of post-trauma in his films Melancholia (2008), Death in the Land of Encantos (2007) and Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012). Diaz has been repeatedly considered as representative of what Jonathan Romney termed in 2004 “Slow Cinema”. The director uses cinematic slowness for an alternative approach to an on-screen representation of post-trauma. Contrary to popular trauma cinema, Diaz’s portrait of individual and collective trauma focuses not on the instantenaeity but on the duration of trauma. In considering trauma as a condition and not as an event, Diaz challenges the standard aesthetical techniques used in contemporary Trauma Cinema, as highlighted by Janet Walker (2001, 2005), Susannah Radstone (2001), Roger Luckhurst (2008) and others. Diaz’s films focus instead on trauma’s latency period, the depletion of a survivor’s resources, and a character’s slow psychological breakdown. Slow Cinema scholarship has so far focused largely on the films’ aesthetics and their alleged opposition to mainstream cinema. Little work has been done in connecting the films’ form to their content. Furthermore, Trauma Cinema scholarship, as trauma films themselves, has been based on the immediate and most radical signs of post-trauma, which are characterised by instantaneity; flashbacks, sudden fears of death and sensorial overstimulation. Following Lutz Koepnick’s argument that slowness offers “intriguing perspectives” (Koepnick, 2014: 191) on how trauma can be represented in art, this thesis seeks to consider the equally important aspects of trauma duration, trauma’s latency period and the slow development of characteristic symptoms. With the present work, I expand on current notions of Trauma Cinema, which places emphasis on speed and the unpredictability of intrusive memories. Furthermore, I aim to broaden the area of Slow Cinema studies, which has so far been largely focused on the films’ respective aesthetics, by bridging form and content of the films under investigation. Rather than seeing Diaz’s slow films in isolation as a phenomenon of Slow Cinema, I seek to connect them to the existing scholarship of Trauma Cinema studies, thereby opening up a reading of his films.
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Reiner, Gabrielle. "Persistances, actualités et dynamiques du noir et blanc au cinéma dans les arts filmiques (1990-2010)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030045/document.
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Travailler le noir et blanc au cinéma sous-entend une alternative temporelle qui s’inscrit à l’image par une absence de couleur mimétique. C’est un cinéma qui a priori puise aux sources d'un passé revendiqué visuellement. Pourquoi et dans quelles intentions certains cinéastes persistent-ils à utiliser le noir et blanc alors que l’évolution historique du média invite à utiliser la couleur ? Comment ce choix à contre-courant permet-il de penser l'histoire du média ? Quels en sont les enjeux matériels, esthétiques et réflexifs ? Existe-t-il des styles du noir et blanc ancrés dans le présent, sans références techniques et plastiques à une histoire univoque des formes ? À une époque de domination économique de la couleur, réaliser des films en noir et blanc serait-il porteur d’une réflexion critique sur les procédés cinématographiques actuels et sur l’industrie qui les impose ? Bien loin d’une bichromie passéiste, en quoi, pourquoi et comment d’autres noir et blanc deviennent-ils des outils de prédilection pour établir l’état des lieux d’une plasticité critique de la représentation de l’industrie audiovisuelle ?Nous verrons qu’en optant pour le noir et blanc, la palette chromatique construit un espace propice à un cinéma différent en rupture avec les conventions du réalisme audiovisuel. Ce cinéma différent « réfléchit » le noir et blanc qui devient une source d’expériences holistiques à l’origine d’un redéploiement élargi du cinéma comme geste et art plastique fondateurs. Ce Doctorat en cartographie et en analyse la richesse et la diversitéTo work on cinematographic black and white is to enter an alternative temporality that incarnates itself on screen through an absence of mimetic colors. It is in theory a cinema rooted in the past and reclaiming it visually. Why do certain filmmakers persist in using black and white instead of following the course of evolution towards color ? Why do they reject the evolution of techniques ? How do they reflect on it, build new technical and esthetical frames ? Are there any styles of black and white which fully belong to the present and don't refer to past techniques and aesthetics ?In a time when color holds an economic supremacy on cinema, black and white films offer a form of technical criticism on the domination of an industry. Far from an bichromic old fashioned, why and how does others black and white become instruments of a new critical esthetics against industrial audiovisual representation ?Chosing black and white allows for a new, different cinema to break with the conventions of realism. This different cinema « reflects » on black and white, transcending it through holistic experiences, synesthetic and cognitive, redefining cinema as a broader act of creative art. This PhD attempts to map and analyse its richness and diversity
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Candusso, Damian. "Dislocations in sound design for 3-d films: sound design and the 3-d cinematic experience." Phd thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/15862.
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Since the success of James Cameron’s Avatar (2009),1 the feature film industry has embraced 3-D feature film technology. With 3-D films now setting a new benchmark for contemporary cinemagoers, the primary focus is directed towards these new stunning visuals. Sound is often neglected until the final filmmaking process as the visuals are taking up much of the film budget. 3-D has changed the relationship between the imagery and the accompanying soundtrack, losing aspects of the cohesive union compared with
2-D film.
Having designed sound effects on Australia’s first digital animated 3-D film, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010),2 and several internationally released 3-D films since, it became apparent to me that the visuals are evolving technologically and artistically at a rate far greater than the soundtrack. This is creating a dislocation between the image and the soundtrack. Although cinema sound technology companies are trialing and releasing new ‘immersive’ technologies, they are not necessarily addressing the spatial relationship between the images and soundtracks of 3-D digital films.
Through first hand experience, I question many of the working methodologies currently employed within the production and creation of the soundtrack for 3-D films. There is limited documentation on sound design within the 3-D feature film context, and as such, there are no rules or standards associated with this new practice. Sound designers and film sound mixers are continuing to use previous 2-D work practices in cinema sound, with limited and cautious experimentation of spatial sound design for 3-D. Although emerging technologies are capable of providing a superior and ‘more immersive’ soundtrack than previous formats, this does not necessarily mean that they provide an ideal solution for 3-D film. Indeed the film industry and cinema managers are showing some resistance in adopting these technologies, despite the push from technology vendors.
Through practice-led research, I propose to research and question the following:Does the contemporary soundtrack suit 3-D films?
; Has sound technology used in 2-D film changed with the introduction of 3-D film? If it has, is this technology an ideal solution, or are further technical developments needed to allow greater creativity and cohesiveness of 3-D film sound design?
; How might industry practices need to develop in order to accommodate the increased dimension and image depth of 3-D visuals?
; Does a language exist to describe spatial sound design in 3-D cinema?
; What is the audience awareness of emerging film technologies? And what does this mean for filmmakers and the cinema?
; Looking beyond contemporary cinema practices, is there an alternative approach to creating a soundtrack that better represents the accompanying 3-D imagery?
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Kilian, Mark Andre. "The relationships between music and sound effects in post 1960 popular Hollywood film." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8963.
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Milner, Johnny. "Sounding Country: Tracking Cultural Representations in the Soundtracks of Contemporary Australian Landscape Cinema." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/118249.
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While recent scholarship demonstrates a significant increase in the level of interest in Australian film music, very little attention has been focused on the soundtracks of contemporary Australian landscape cinema — including films that explore the contentious aspects of Australia’s colonial legacy. This thesis is intended to respond to this research gap, in particular by employing textual and production analysis methodologies to track cultural identifications and representations within four recent landscape films. The films are Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Proposition, Australia and Samson & Delilah; and I look specifically at their sonic dimensions — namely, the amalgam of score, dialogue and sound effects.
The study explores the particular aesthetics and ideologies of the soundtracks; it is concerned with codification and how the soundtracks amplify — consciously and subconsciously — new and oppositional insights with respect to contemporary understandings of Australian identity and landscape. The study also argues that the soundtracks are powerful modes of expression and, as such, are themselves engaged in contemporary debates surrounding Australian history such as the ‘history wars’, ‘Mabo’ decision and the Bringing Them Home report. Unlike other important studies on Australian cinema and more specifically Australian landscape cinema, my research suggests that attending to the hitherto neglected soundtrack may present an opportunity not only for achieving a more comprehensive film criticism but also for extending the ways we address Australia’s past. Such a project, focusing on the sonic dimension, may also prove to be of fundamental significance to our present-day challenge of securing a more productive social and psychological engagement with Aboriginal Australia.
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Scully, Michael F. "American folk music revivalism, 1965-2005." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3522.
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