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DOI : 10.60527/cc1w-6910
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MSHBx. (2024, 14 novembre). Sound effects cinema: Mid-1930s Japanese films and the surprising synthesis of silent and sound techniques , 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/cc1w-6910. (Consultée le 25 avril 2025)
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Sound effects cinema: Mid-1930s Japanese films and the surprising synthesis of silent and sound techniques

Réalisation : 14 novembre 2024 - Mise en ligne : 18 février 2025
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Sean O'Reilly, "Sound effects cinema: Mid-1930s Japanese films and the surprising synthesis of silent and sound techniques". 

Panel 3 : Représentations du média sonore / Representations of sound media 

In late 1935, precisely halfway through the 1930s and Japan’s lengthy transition to sound cinema, a curious musical comedy-style period drama, Enoken Plays Kondō Isami (Enoken no Kondō Isami), was released. The vaudevillian-style comedy poked fun at famous nineteenth century patriots, depicting them as buffoons for comic effect. But the comedy was not only visual in nature; indeed, film studios’ first successes earlier in the 1930s with sync-sound “talkies” had already begun to condition moviegoers to expect much of the fun to enter through the ears rather than the eyes. The film makes frequent use of aural gags, so it may come as a surprise to notice that several of its most dramatic sequences were shot silently, with nondiegetic background music added later. Is this, then, a true talkie or does it still have one foot in the silent era? In this paper, I argue that this film’s bold—and tongue-in-cheek—blending of both silent and sound film techniques is its greatest strength. Its success shows that Japanese cinema’s range of possibilities was greater in 1935, in this hybrid stage, than at any other time before or since. 

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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