Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2018
Abstract
This article focuses on the advent of synchronized sound production in Japan in 1931 – three years later than the United States – and the generative ambiguities of how sound and music’s relationship to film was figured in that year’s anxious discourse. I argue that this ‘belatedness’ is echoed in relationships of on-screen image and offscreen sound, noise, and music in two important early sound films, The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine (Gosho 1931) and A Tipsy Life (Kimura 1933).
Keywords
Japan, early sound film, musicals, offscreen space, modernity
Discipline
Asian Studies | Music
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
32
Last Page
46
ISSN
1756-4905
Identifier
10.1080/17564905.2018.1450470
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
Citation
DAVIS, Richard M.(2018). Whose blue heaven? Musicality in the early Japanese talkies. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 10(1), 32-46.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3127
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/17564905.2018.1450470