Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen [Hardcover]

A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic, demonstrating how this translates into a shift of canonical narratives and interpretations.1. Sounding Fascism in Cinema 2. Dubbing in Deed, and Listening to Dubbing 3. Cinema Talks: Between 'Make Believe' and Schizophonia 4. The Soundtrack after Fascism: the Neorealist Play without Sound 5. Michelangelo Antonioni, the Wind is Photogenic 6. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Thousand Notes of Contestation

Film Sound in Italy makes a difference in thinking about film aesthetics, history, and politics through its inventive investigation of the creative role of sound. - Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor, English and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Antonella Sisto's study taught me to think about sound in ways far deeper and more sophisticated than I had ever considered possible. This probing investigation of the uses and abuses of dubbing in Fascist cinema, neorealism, as well as in the works of Antonioni and Pasolini, offers new insights into areas so exhaustively studied as to defy new critical inroads. A major contribution to scholarship, Film Sound in Italy will also find enthusiastic readers among lay connoisseurs of the Seventh Art. - Millicent Marcus, Professor, Italian and Film Studies, Yale University, USA

This book implicates the study of Italian Cinema within the broader aural turn of recent film studies and courageously devises a special kind of auscultation for Italian sound film. The effect is striking: like the sudden turning off of the mute button, it opens our ears to the reverberations of history and ideology. - Alessandra Campana, Associate Professor, Musicology, Tufts University, USA

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