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Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago“Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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Joel Edelman deposited A Coherent Model of Musical Consonance in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoWithout fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]
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Adrian Curtin started the topic CfP for online symposium: The Experimental Orchestra (December 13, 2023) in the discussion
Music on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEvent date: December 13, 2023
Submission deadline: September 1, 2023
Orchestras around the world are conducting experiments related to performance, to the constitution of the orchestra, and to its operation. Professional classical music ensembles, like many other organisations and institutions in the cultural sector, face an existential…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Experimental Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl momento fílmico: De ‘Hamlet’ a ‘Saraband’ https://www.academia.edu/14107431/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Experimental Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoLa Mort en Direct: https://www.academia.edu/12948280/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic The Film of the Book in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoReseña de ‘Film Adaptation’ (ed. James Naremore) https://www.academia.edu/12890219/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Women, Gender, & Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEmpezamos con una de Jane Campion. En la raja (In the Cut) https://www.academia.edu/12718189/
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Joel Edelman deposited Clarifying Musical Consonance in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoWithout fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Philosophy and Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoRetropost, 2013: Margarethe von Trotta: Hannah Arendt https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/06/hannah-arendt-by-margarethe-von-trotta.html
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Science Fiction Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoI mean this in the sense of classic science fiction, excluding sword and sorcery fantasies and other well-established generic fantasies…. Eg. I, Robot: ¡Ay, robot! https://www.academia.edu/40832609/
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Building Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in “Blue Collar” (1978) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The company builds cars and destroys men” was the promotional tagline of one of the posters for “Blue Collar” (1978). Shot in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto playing three Detroit auto workers in financial despair who break into and rob the offices of their own union. “Blue Collar”…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Participación comunitaria en los medios de comunicación. Perspectivas para el desarrollo local in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa producción de los medios de comunicación constituye una expresión de la sociedad que los gesta. Los grupos sociales que intervienen en la producción televisiva actualmente son herederos de la práctica funcionalista y trasmisiva de los medios tradicionales de comunicación (prensa plana, radio y televisión). En esa lógica los temas que se represe…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Enfoque participativo en la producción y consumo de televisión: modelo para las comunidades de práctica in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLos textosaudiovisualesdemandan una combinación de actividades entorno a larepresentación ydecodificación. El proceso se encuentra condicionado pordiferentesrolesen los procesos de producción y consumo televisivo. Se plantea como objetivo de la investigación: diseñarun modelo de producción para las comunidades de práctica televis…[Read more]
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Eric Sirota started the topic New Movie: Frankenstein (musical) based on Mary Shelley’s novel in the discussion
Music on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoI’m excited to tell you that my musical, “Frankenstein” that played Off-Broadway in NY for 3 years, was adapted for screen, with an expanded score and orchestration. It was just released this week and is available on StreamingMusicals.com or from the website https://TheFrankensteinMusical.com
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