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Andy Birtwistle’s book effervesces with ideas, as he encounters experimental and art films and their sound and dialogues with makers and scholars. Reading it feels like a bracing hike through woods with new discoveries at every turn. -- Claudia Gorbman, Professor Emerita, University of Washington. Author of 'Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music' (1987), USA Film Sound Modernism reorients our understanding of modernist cinema by tuning into its sonic dimension. Challenging visual-centric narratives, Birtwistle reveals how disrupted relations between music, sound effects and dialogue can operate as potent sites of artistic and political innovation. From essay films to experimental works, this study listens critically to underexplored cinematic traditions beyond Hollywood to offer an intervention into audiovisual studies essential for anyone interested in cinema’s sonic imagination and its modernist legacy. -- Holly Rogers, Professor of Music, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Through historical and contemporary case studies, Andy Birtwistle proposes new ways to consider the poetics and stakes of modernist cinema. He achieves this by clarifying what modernist film sound is and also by brilliantly investigating what it does. Film Sound Modernism is an essential read. -- Liz Greene, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of Reading, UK

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Andy Birtwistle is Reader in Film and Sound at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is author of Cinesonica: Sounding Film and Video (2010). His research interests include film sound, avant-garde film and art cinema, and sonic arts. His writing has been published in The Journal of Sound and Culture of British Cinema and Television, Journal of British Cinema and Television, The New Soundtrack, and Visual Culture in Britain.

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