The relationships between youth-made media and youth cultures and between youth-made media and mainstream media are diverse and inextricable. All of them occur inside the complex sociocultural and economical system of late capitalist and post-industrial societies. The relationships are historically and geographically specific, and have been in constant flux and transition during the second [...]
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In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), it is useful to look at the theatrical and dramatic practices of the 18th and 19th century. Studying the music and staging conventions of Melodrama, for instance, help us to answer [...] “We are not Japanese, we are not Americans, we are not human beings, we came from planet Peelander” yelled Kengo Hioki at the terrace of the Elysium while a camera man was interviewing him. Hioki San was wearing a single piece yellow chicken outfit that had a P and a white star in his vest. [...] As a researcher interested in the aural dimension of culture and everyday life, I feel engaged with the scholarly conversation on sound studies that is presented in Cinema Journal In Focus Issue 48.1. Several times during my academic journey, I have asked myself similar questions and confront similar problems to the ones that Coates, Friz, [...] |
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