Audio History des Films: Sonic Icons – Auditive Histosphäre – Authentizitätsgefühl

Film is considered a visual medium, but almost every film also has an audio track. In this book, three authors examine the relationship between film sound and history. They open up a field of research that opens passages between film studies, sound studies and historical studies. Winfried Pauleit examines the aesthetic potential of film to produce history in the form of "Sonic Icons" in moments of self-reflection. Rasmus Greiner explores the connections between the audiovisual construction of historical experiences and sound design as an "auditory histosphere". Mattias Frey analyzes the interaction between history and sound using the example of dialects in history films and discusses the "feeling of authenticity".The film's audio history focuses on the aesthetic interplay of sound, image and text, as well as the potential to model or even create history, as well as the discourses on the reception of film sound, which are presented using empirical audience studies.