Sounds And The City

Shanghai obviously developed its whole effective power and charm of humanities, especially in considered as the Chinese paragon of global cities, depending on a successfully 2010 World Exposition. In the meaning time, the films focusing on Shanghai city broke out from 2005 and continued until now and this leaded to a neap high water of Shanghai city film from the 1930s. This is easily found that there is a not simple but necessary link between the prosperity of film and the development of city and two difficult subject fields, namely city and film, are tied by this link. In the current framework of the times, there is no doubt that the context creating and scale making of Film should be based on city considering as mother’s body and become the "video text" for synchronous reading the related cities.Next, from the point of senses, human keep direct feeling about city by see, hear, touch, or try and every time they have a special method and meaning. In current spreading visual culture, multi-senses feeling may be a more balanced cognitive style. Thus, studying auditory culture is becoming hot and active. However, there is a complex research field and mostly each research needs to link the other fields, such as film sound. Therefore, facing the active interaction between city and film, the thesis considers films, exactly to say film sounds, as the research object.In order to link film sound to city together, the thesis proposes the concept of "film sound scape" by using "sound scape" in the research of visual culture. This concept consists of four keys that are film, city, city sound, and film sound. These two keys, namely city and sound, could never be replaced in appearance and they separately support two independent scape worlds. Sound could be considered as a Uniform material because of its liquidity. Film sound and city sound are two displaying types of sound and can transfer each other. During the process of transferring, culture power can be transferred from one to the other and this action of transferring can show a culture meaning in the relations between sound and its related spaces. This culture of intercommunication meaning obviously maps to each other and self-unscramble city by films. This type of self-unscrambling is unique at the auditory culture meaning.Returning to beginning, the thesis put the theory building into the current city. In order to implement this reading type and hear real Shanghai and video Shanghai, the thesis discovery multiaspect city characteristics of Shanghai from the point of audio culture. "How to choose which angle to expend the culture research of film sound" is the question, which is thought by the thesis from the beginning. Thus, the research should get much benefit from the fields of city, film and sound.