The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	November 2020
Editors:	Michael Raine • Johan Nordstroem
Contributors:	Keiko Sasagawa • Shuhei Hosokawa • Chie Niita • Manabu Ueda • Yohei Nagato • Fumiaki Itakura
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-90-896477-3-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Radio Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	90-896477-3-2
Barcode:	9789089647733

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