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The din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreels

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dc.creatorShpolberg, Masha
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:51:34Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:51:34Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractFrench film historian Laurent Véray has famously called World War I ‘the first media war of the twentieth century’. Newsreels, which first appeared in 1910, brought the war to movie theaters across Europe and the U.S., screening combat for those on the ‘home front’. However, while the audience could see the action it could not hear it – sometimes only live music would accompany the movements of the troops. The arrival of sound newsreels in 1929 radically transformed moviegoers’ experiences of the news, and, by necessity, of armed conflict. Drawing on examples of World War II newsreels from British Pathé’s archive that was recently made available online, this article seeks to delineate the logic governing the combination of voice-over commentary, music, sound effects, and field-recorded sound, and argues that it can be traced directly to the treatment of sound in the ‘Great War’ fiction films of the preceding decade.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.SHPO
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15152
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/din-gunfire-rethinking-role-sound-world-war-ii-newsreels/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3335
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectWeltkrieg <1939-1945>de
dc.subjectZweiter Weltkriegde
dc.subjectWochenschaude
dc.subjectAudiotechnikde
dc.subjectBritish Pathé (Firma)de
dc.subjectWorld War IIen
dc.subjectNewsreelen
dc.subjectsound technologiesen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleThe din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreelsen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationShpolberg, Masha (2014): The din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreels. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 3 (2), 113–129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.SHPO.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:24:20
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.2.SHPO
local.source.epage129
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage113
local.source.volume3

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