This lecture gives a brief overview of how sound influences moving images. Using a semiotic framework, I cover both the silent film era and the early sound movies. Also, I outline the technological development and, linked to that, the different compositional approaches used.
Filmography:
Barbera, Joseph, and William Hanna. 1944 Tom and Jerry: Puttin’ on the Dog.
Crosland, Alan. 2007 [1927]. The Jazz Singer. Warner Home Video. DVD.
Curtiz, Michael. 2008 [1942]. Casablanca. Warner Home Video. DVD.
Dudow, Slatan. 1932 Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt?
Eisenstein, Sergei M. 2015 [1925]. Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosets Potemkin]. Filmmuseum München. DVD.
Kubrick, Stanley. 1980 The Shining.
Lang, Fritz. 1927 Metropolis.
Lang, Fritz. 1931 M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder.
Lucas, George. 1977. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope [Star Wars]. DVD.
von Sternberg, Josef. 1930 Der blaue Engel.
Literature:
Cooke, Mervyn. 2008. A history of film music. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cooke, Mervyn, and Fiona Ford, eds. 2016. The Cambridge companion to film music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kaslinak, Kathryn Marie. 2010. Film music: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Neumeyer, David, ed. 2014. The Oxford handbook of film music studies. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.