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Screening Radio or Broadcasting Cinema. How to Expose a Nameless Medium
No full textLargely before television got institutionalised as “a broadcast flow of illusions of motion controlled from outside for a scattered audience in the private sphere,” the notion of “seeing at a distance through technical means” has emerged as an idea, a discursive entity (in specialists’ writings as well as in popular culture), an experimental, tinkering practice and, finally, a technological marvel that was considered worthy of public attention. My attempt here will be to recover this particular stage in the life span of the medium from an intermedial perspective: in particular, I will address the formative years of Italian radio and its stabilization as a mass medium, from late Twenties to the early Thirties, during aproximately the same period when the idea of “distant vision” was shifting from what television historian R.W. Burns calls “the era of speculation (1877-1922)” to the earliest attempt in electro-mechanical transmissions (1926-1934). In doing so, I will consider the relation between radio and its alleged “visual equivalent” (by that time often named “radiovision”) by taking in account both the immaterial and material aspects involved, that is to say the expectations espressed by radio technicians and commentators in respect to the new medium as well as the concrete attempts to turn audio broadcasting technologies in means for image transmission
Retuning the Screen. Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film and Media History
No full textFar from merely considering the aural 'segments' of audiovisual texts (i.e. the soundtrack) in terms of their expressive and artistic significance, or being concerned only with 'audio' and technologically mediated sound in and of itself, this volume aims to understand how the theoretical concepts and methods developed to investigate aurality could reframe cinema and visual media as research objects. Distributed across ten different thematic sections, the contributors develop the theoretical content of 'aural epistemologies' in Film and Media Studies, discuss the role of listening culture in our experience as film spectators and media users and, finally, re-assess the significance of sound archives and sonic archaeologies in relation to our knowledge of past (sound)mediascapes
Politiche del suono. La radio e il resto
No full textIL testo adatta l’intervento presentato da Simone Dotto e Peppino Ortoleva durante il convegno “Politiche e istituzioni culturali del fascismo”, organizzato presso l’Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici di Roma l’11 gennaio 2019
Exposing the Moving Image: The Cinematic Medium Across World Fairs, Art Museums, and Cultural Exhibitions
No full textHow exploring the interrelations between moving images, the cinematic medium and other arts and media as seen through global exhibiting events can meet the objectives the film and media studies are currently pursuing, in the direction of expanding the field of excavation of its objects, and relativising the theoretical and historical accounts on the origin and identity of the cinematic medium
Avant into Pop, Pop into Avant. Interplays between Music and Visual Media
No full textThis introductory essay theoretically addresses the ongoing exchanges between avant-garde and popular forms in the visual media while interacting with music, as viewed from trans-historical and intermedial perspectives. For instance, it is discussed the work of John Cage, Yoko Ono, Velvet Underground, Brian Eno, and David Byrne, as well as Dada and Fluxus. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie aims at pushing the discussion on the “avant-pop connection” further by embracing a wider angle of observation The call for transhistorical and intermedial investigations aims precisely at re-framing the general topic as a matter of contamination and continuities between apparently distinct moments and “sectors” of cultural history
Avant-garde and Popular Forms Between Music and Visual Media. Transhistorical and Intermedial Investigations (Special Issue of Cinéma & Cie. International Film Studies Journal)
No full textThis special issue of Cinéma & Cie aims at pushing the discussion on the relationships
between avant-garde arts and popular culture far beyond traditional scholarship
on the topic, stressing the concept of cultural history more than the specificity
of film, media and music histories. By adopting a global perspective, the authors
will elaborate useful analytical and theoretical tools to re-assess the “avantpop
connection” as a dynamics of two-way exchanges across several artistic and media
domains and different geographical and historical contexts
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