Aesthetics of Early Sound Film: Media Change Around 1930

This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on the films’ fundamentally experimental and inventive character.

Daniel Wiegand is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at University of Zurich. He is the author of Gebannte Bewegung: Tableaux vivants und früher Film in der Kultur der Moderne as well as co-editor of Film Bild Kunst: Visuelle Ästhetik im vorklassischen Stummfilm (edited with Jörg Schweinitz, 2016). Recent articles include ＂’Islands of Sound in the Silent Flow of Film: ’ German Part-Talkies Around 1930 as a Hybrid Medium,＂ in Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (2022).