Readings: Mark Betz, Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema ; Subitltes: On the Foreigness of Film ; Musical Film
Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History by James Buhler, David Neumeyer, and Rob Deemer
Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924 by Martin Miller Marks (Hardcover - Feb 13, 1997)
Silent Film Sound (Film and Culture Series) by Rick Altman
The Sounds of Early Cinema by Richard Abel and Rick R. Altman (Paperback - Oct 1, 2001)
The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 (History of the American Cinema, 4) (Paperback)
Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema by David Sonnenschein (Paperback - Jun 15, 2002)
The Voice in Cinema by Michel Chion and Claudia Gorbman
Film, A Sound Art (Film and Culture Series) by Professor Michel Chion, Professor Claudia Gorbman, and Professor C. Jon Delogu (Paperback - Jun 26, 2009)
Audio-Vision by Michel Chion, Claudia Gorbman, and Walter Murch (Paperback - April 15, 1994)
Fritz Lang, Fury (the silent film documentary at the trial) and Beyond a Reasoanble Doubt (radio, electricity, telephones and evidience)
Jean-Luc Godard, Vivre sa Vie
Carl Dreyer, Passion of Joan of Arc
The girlfriend listening to the tape on headphones so that we ca't hear it scene in Herzog's Grizzly
Fritz Lang, M
-------, Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Liliom two vesions of film of his lifee, first with regular sound, second with sound of his inner thoughts
Sound of the carousel
Rene Clair, A Nous La Liberte (recording industry)
------Underneath the Roofs of Paris
------Le Million
The Rules of the Game (radio)
Hitchcock, Blackmail (both silent and sound versions) (record as a police car wheels--the wehel of justice get black flat tires.
Cottage on Dartmoor (scene of watching a silent film with aduience members in the movie theater in this silent film)
Synchronizaiton of sound circa 1929
Sunset Boulevard (silent film as outmoded)
Sound Design
Coppola Apocalypse Now Redux
Surround sound
Film Resotration
DVDs of silent films with two to four soundtrack options.
Silent film soundtrack resotrations / new soundtracks
Phantom Carriage (deliberately anachronistic)
Metropolis Moriconno score andmodern restored core
Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera
Hitchcock ,The Lodger--no soundtrack at all
Contempoary soundtracks for silent films:
solo piano or organ
Voice overs Night and the City
Female versus male voice overs in film noir
Audiocommentaries on DVD versus notes on film to be read silently as apratexts. like on treasures from the Amerincan Archive IV versus Seeing Oneself with one's Own eyes, and Brakage cmemntary
Scorpio Rising with and wihout commentary--music as satire
Lynch, Blue Velvet--lip synching scene
Peeping Tom (silent b& w films of childhood)
The Game (silent color film of childhoood)
Avant-garde film and animation:
Stemboat WIlly
Emile Cohl
Discussion questions are due by 8 p.m. on Mondays and by 10:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Tentative Schedule:
January 6: Fundamentals of Film Analysis: In class clips from
Screening January 7:
Two discussion questions on and two discussion questions on each of the readings (six questions in all) due January 7 by 10:30 p.m.
January 8:
PLEASE BE SURE TO BRING COPIES OF THE TEXTS WITH YOU TO CLASS. Please note: if you don't bring the assigned readings with you, I count you as absent. Only two absences are allowed without penalty.)
La Silence de la Mer
Walkabout
Radio On
Border radio
Godard Pierrot le Fou