Research Catalog

Title

The culture of the sound image in prewar Japan / edited by Michael Raine and Johan Nordström.

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

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Additional Authors

• Raine, Michael
• Nordström, Johan

Description

227 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan. Putting the cinema at the center of a ?culture of the sound image?, it restores complexity to a media transition that is often described simply as slow and reluctant. In that vibrant sound culture, the talkie was introduced on the radio before it could be heard in the cinema, and pop music adaptations substituted for musicals even as cinema musicians and live narrators resisted the introduction of recorded sound. Taken together, the essays show that the development of sound technology shaped the economic structure of the film industry and its labour practices, the intermedial relation between cinema, radio, and popular music, as well as the architecture of cinemas and the visual style of individual Japanese films and filmmakers.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Motion pictures > Japan > History > 20th century
• Motion pictures
• Japan

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

MFL 21-946

ISBN

• 9089647732
• 9789089647733

OCLC

1197565463

Title

The culture of the sound image in prewar Japan / edited by Michael Raine and Johan Nordström.

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Raine, Michael, editor.

Nordström, Johan, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 21-946