"Großes Kino. Filmplakate aus zwölf Jahrzehnten".
Sonderausstellung der Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Kooperation mit den 74. Internationalen Filmfestspielen Berlin und der Deutschen Kinemathek
Maria Fuchs is a musicologist and lecturer, currently working as a postdoctoral scholar in the field of music and media culture at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Gastvortrag
"Soundscapes von ,Heimat'".
Vortrag und Diskussion im Rahmen der "Heidelberger Heimatgespräche" der Forschungsinitiative "Heimat(en). Geschichte, Medien und Praktiken von Zugehörigkeit"
Dezember 2022
Universität Heidelberg
Links
Heidelberger Heimatgespräche
Lecture
"Film Music as Cultural Colonialism".
Lecture at the British Audio-Visual Research Network Virtual Colloquia
November 2022
BARN-Virtual
Links
BARN-Virtual
Soundscapes of 'Heimat'
Mapping Musical Signatures, 2020–2023
Research Project
This project aims to contribute to the clarification of the concept of 'home' by showing how it is created in relation to media and pop music
and how it influences a sense of collective identity and social belonging. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the medium of film has proved to be an essential constructive element of 'home' in the German-speaking world. In the research literature on 'homeland' films and mountain films of Austrian/German film production, the important role of music in these films has so far been given little attention.
Stummfilmmusik.
Theorie und Praxis im "Allgemeinen Handbuch der Film-Musik (1927)"
Schüren: Marburg 2016
(= Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung 68)
Publication
This book examines the musical performance practice of silent film in Germany in the 1920s and sheds light on the early attempts at a theory and aesthetics of film music. The starting point for the study is the "Allgemeine Handbuch der Film-Musik" from 1927. Thereby, the genesis of film music conventions will be explored as well as the intermedial relationship between silent film music and music-aesthetic traditions.