Sound in documentary: the soundtrack and its transformations in the main moments and movements of the documentary tradition between the years 1927 and 1968

• Grant number: 13/09996-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Cinema
• Principal Investigator: Claudiney Rodrigues Carrasco
• Grantee: Renan Paiva Chaves
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The proposal of this project is to deal with the issue of sound in documentary, a subject that still needs development in the literature of cinema and film sound. The objective of the research is to understand how the sound (the full soundtrack) was used in the main movements and moments of documentary tradition between 1920 and 1960. Intending thereby to elaborate a panoramic perspective on how the characteristics of the soundtrack in the documentary were being transformed, observing the persistences and changes employed between movements and moments of documentary tradition. It is also desired, with the preparation of the dissertation, to establish an approximation, conceptual and/ or comparative, between the film sound studies and theories about documentary.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CHAVES, Renan Paiva. Sound in documentary film: the soundtrack and its transformations in the main movements and moments of the documentary film tradition, from the 1920s to 1960s. 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes Campinas, SP.