Publication details
Speech and noise as the elements of intermedia history of the early Czech sound cinema
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | MLVs Cinema and other media / Versioni multiple Cinema e altri media |
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| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | coming of sound film;Czech cinema;media culture of the 1930s |
| Description | The advent of the film sound took place within the cultural and social milieu already penetrated by technically mediated sounds. In the turn of the 1920’s there were already radio-related discussions going on, which established the basic categories to classify technical noises. About 1930 the main interest already started to shift from the real noises to the sonic richness of the speech. In these situations, the attempts were made to search for the sound-cinema’s specificity not so much within the realm of noises, but rather in the realm of the spoken word. Nonetheless, the spoken word was considered fundamentally sonic, rich in pure sound qualities and incorporating the sonic effects previously ascribed to noises. In this sense, the discourses surrounding the advent of the film sound constructed sound cinema as the aesthetic and cultural continuation of the radio. |
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