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Film sound in Italy listening to the screen /

A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic, demonstrating how this translates into a shif...

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Main Authors: Sisto, Antonella C., 1975
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Sound motion pictures > History > 20th century > Italy
Dubbing of motion pictures > Italy
Motion pictures > Political aspects > Italy
Films, cinema > Italy
Performing Arts
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137387714
Summary: A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. 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.
"Film Sound in Italy makes a difference in thinking about film aesthetics, history, and politics through its inventive investigation of the creative role of sound." - Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor, English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA "Antonella Sisto's study taught me to think about sound in ways far deeper and more sophisticated than I had ever considered possible. This probing investigation of the uses and abuses of dubbing in Fascist cinema, neorealism, as well as in the works of Antonioni and Pasolini, offers new insights into areas so exhaustively studied as
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137387707, 2014.
Carrier Form: 236 p. : 9 b&w, ill.
ISBN: 9781137387714 :
1137387718 :
CLC: J909.546
Contents: 1. Sounding Fascism in Cinema 2. Dubbing in Deed, and Listening to Dubbing 3. Cinema Talks: Between 'Make Believe' and Schizophonia 4. The Soundtrack after Fascism: the Neorealist Play without Sound 5. Michelangelo Antonioni, the Wind is Photogenic 6. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Thousand Notes of Contestation.

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