Sonic Imagination, or Film Sound as a Discursive Construct in Czech Culture of the Transitional Period

SZCZEPANIK, Petr. Sonic Imagination, or Film Sound as a Discursive Construct in Czech Culture of the Transitional Period. In MLVs Cinema and other media / Versioni multiple Cinema e altri media. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008, p. 87-104, 17 pp. Film studies/Communication. ISBN 978-0-252-07532-2.

Basic information

• Original name: Sonic Imagination, or Film Sound as a Discursive Construct in Czech Culture of the Transitional Period
• Name in Czech: Raný zvukový film jako diskursivní konstrukt v české kultuře let 1928-1935
• Authors: SZCZEPANIK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor).
• Edition: Chicago, MLVs Cinema and other media / Versioni multiple Cinema e altri media, p. 87-104, 17 pp. Film studies/Communication, 2008.
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/08:00024981
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07532-2
• Keywords in English: film history; media history; film sound; radio; film archive
• Tags: film archive, film history, film sound, media history, Radio
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

The profound transformations which cinema underwent during the period 1927-1934 on all levels were defined not only by technological development but also by the discourses (comprised of reviews, theories, advertisements, business decisions, patents etc.), practices (different ways of creation and consumption) and institutions (established media, arts, sciences, legislation, and other social and economic structures) surrounding it and inserting it into the world of everyday life. Cinema s prospect as it stood on the crossroads of alternative possible futures implied different modes of social use and meaning which differed significantly from the institution of silent cinema. In this article I propose a description of five groups of arguments and tropes structuring the film-sound related discourses present in the Czech culture of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Links

• GP408/03/D174, research and development project: Name: Kulturněhistorické kontexty zavedení synchronního reprodukovaného zvuku v české kinematografii

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Cultural-historical context of transition to recorded synchronous sound in the Czech cinema