
Sync
Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time
James Tobias(Author)
Temple University Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 30. July 2010
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-4399-0201-1 (ISBN)
Description
Details the profound historical appeal of films, video, and digital works emphasizing synchronized musicality and gesture
Reviews / Votes
"James Tobias's groundbreaking book offers erudite and thoughtful conversations on sound theory, music computation, and theories of spectatorship. Sync cobbles together a discontinuous history of musicality in the hands of cinematic practitioners from Sergei Eisenstein's rhythmic montage, through Steina Vasulka's feminist eco-ethics, to John Cameron Mitchell's performative aesthetics. What emerges is a sonic genealogy building on fragments of counter-traditions. A deeply passionate work, Sync is an outstanding contribution to the fields of cinema studies and sound theory"-Bhaskar Sarkar, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
"Sync offers a much needed and thoroughly radical revision of debates around synchronization, opening up a range of different audiovisual modalities to political analysis, and breaking the stranglehold that existing forms of political discourse have had on discussions of sound-image relations. The author's key move has been to employ the notion of synch (sic) to address not only the relationships between sound and image in audiovisual media but also those between text and audience, focusing primarily on the experience of reception....[T]he approach adopted by Tobias is highly original.... [T]here is much to recommend this book which, in providing new perspectives on the political dimensions of audiovisuality, repays the close attention it demands."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4399-0201-1 (9781439902011)
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Person
James Tobias is Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media Studies in the English Department of the University of California, Riverside.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Ciphers of Hieroglyphic Time
2 Eisenstein's Gesture: Breaking Down Alexander Nevsky
3 For Love of Music: Oskar Fischinger's Modal, Musical Diagram
4 Hanns Eisler's Dialectical Stream: Sync, Dissonance, and the Devil
5 Black Relationship: Improvising a Black Pacific
6 Melos, Telos, and Me: Transpositions of Identity in the Rock Musical
7 Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
1 Ciphers of Hieroglyphic Time
2 Eisenstein's Gesture: Breaking Down Alexander Nevsky
3 For Love of Music: Oskar Fischinger's Modal, Musical Diagram
4 Hanns Eisler's Dialectical Stream: Sync, Dissonance, and the Devil
5 Black Relationship: Improvising a Black Pacific
6 Melos, Telos, and Me: Transpositions of Identity in the Rock Musical
7 Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time
Notes
Index