TY - JOUR
T1 - Sounds of The Silent Star
T2 - the context, score and thematics of the 1960 film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel Astronauci
AU - Hayward, Philip
AU - Lewandowski, Natalie
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Our study examines the production context and interrelation of sound design, score and thematics in the feature film adaptation of Stanisſaw Lem's 1951 novel Astronauci ('Astronauts'). This article analyses the production of the original 1960 version, directed by East German Kurt Maetzig (in dual language versions) as an East German/Polish co-production entitled Der Schweigende Stern/MilczĿca Gwiazda (both translating as The Silent Star), with particular regard to its innovative use of sound design and electronic music, and the manner in which these function to create senses of interplanetary difference, alienation and modernity appropriate to the film's cautionary moral-ecological narrative.
AB - Our study examines the production context and interrelation of sound design, score and thematics in the feature film adaptation of Stanisſaw Lem's 1951 novel Astronauci ('Astronauts'). This article analyses the production of the original 1960 version, directed by East German Kurt Maetzig (in dual language versions) as an East German/Polish co-production entitled Der Schweigende Stern/MilczĿca Gwiazda (both translating as The Silent Star), with particular regard to its innovative use of sound design and electronic music, and the manner in which these function to create senses of interplanetary difference, alienation and modernity appropriate to the film's cautionary moral-ecological narrative.
U2 - 10.3828/sfftv.2010.13
DO - 10.3828/sfftv.2010.13
M3 - Article
VL - 3
SP - 183
EP - 200
JO - Science fiction film and television
JF - Science fiction film and television
SN - 1754-3770
IS - 2
ER -