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DOI : 10.60527/wwxv-ns04
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MSHBx. (2024, 16 novembre). Recorded sound and the development of ideological control: Changes in Japanese cinema since 1931 , in Le Japon sonore : modernité, constructions sociales, rapports de force / Japan and sound: modernity, social constructs and power relations. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://doi.org/10.60527/wwxv-ns04. (Consultée le 25 avril 2025)
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Recorded sound and the development of ideological control: Changes in Japanese cinema since 1931

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Elena Claver Hernàndez, "Recorded sound and the development of ideological control: Changes in Japanese cinema since 1931". 

Panel 11 – Sound and representation of social space 

The screening of the first proper Japanese “talkie” film, The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine, in August of 1931 took place barely a month before the Invasion of Manchuria. From that point onwards, while silent movies were slowly being abandoned, Japanese cinema suffered increasing vigilance and censorship from the military and bureaucrats which reached its peak during the WW2. Without claiming this process to be the ultimate consequence of the introduction of recorded sound in films, this paper aims to explore how the development of the “talkies”—just as other sound-based mass-media communication devices like the radio—facilitated the task of controlling Japanese cinema and gearing it towards a propagandistic function. The disappearance of the benshi, which could reframe the visual plot through their live performance, put an end to one of the strategies to oppose governmental control. The decline of the jidai-geki, whose focus was on its visual potential, marks the transition towards “realism”: newsreels and documentaries of the battlefront, narrated by personalities of the Army and surrounded by “true” explosion sounds and climatic music. 

Colloque "Le Japon sonore : modernité, constructions sociales, rapports de force / Japan and sound: modernity, social constructs and power relations" 14-16 novembre 2024, organisé par Jeremy Corral (UMRU 24140 D2IA, Université Bordeaux Montaigne) et par Chiharu Chûjô (EA 4186-IETT, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3).

More informations: https://mshbordeaux.hypotheses.org/10930 

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