Godard and Sound

Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard

Albertine Fox (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19996-5 (ISBN)

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What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood the importance of the soundtrack in cinema and relied heavily on the impact of carefully constructed sound to produce innovative effects. For the first time, this book brings together his post-1979 multimedia works, and an analysis of their rich soundscapes.The book provides detailed critical discussions of feature-length films, shorts and videos, delving into Godard's inventive experiments with the cinematic soundtrack and offering new insights into his latest 3D films. By detailing the production contexts and philosophy behind Godard's idiosyncratic sound design, it provides an accessible route to understanding his complex use of music, speech and environmental sound, alongside the distorting effects of speed alteration and auditory excess. The book is framed by the concept of 'acoustic spectatorship': a way of cultivating active listening in the viewer.It also draws on ideas by leading sound theorists, philosophers, musicians, and poets, giving particular emphasis to the pioneering thought of French sound engineer and theorist, Pierre Schaeffer.
Softening the boundaries between film studies, sound studies and musicology, Godard and Sound re-evaluates Godard's work from a sonic perspective, and will prove essential reading for those wishing to rebalance the importance of sound for the study of cinema.

Albertine Fox is Lecturer in French Film at the University of Bristol, UK. She is the author of articles on Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema and video art and Chantal Akerman’s films and installations. Her article ‘Constructing Voices in Jean-Luc Godard’s Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1979)’ was awarded the 2014 Susan Hayward Prize by the Association for Studies in French Cinema.

Chapter 1Acoustic Spectatorship: The Evolution of a New Sound Cinema
Chapter 2Constructing Voices
Chapter 3Sound, Body and Audible Space
Chapter 4Fragments of Time and Memory
Chapter 5 Listening Through Curves
Chapter 6A Land Out of Focus: Between Eye and Ear
Chapter 7Acoustic Dystopias and Rhythms of Change
CodaShadows and Sparks

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	30 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-19996-6 / 1350199966
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19996-5 / 9781350199965
Zustand	Neuware