Wirth Institute Fellow Anna K. Windisch has recently coedited the anthology The Sounds of Silent Films. New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), with Claus Tieber from the University of Vienna. The volume collects articles by eminent scholars in the fields of musicology, film studies and media studies, as well as curators and archivists and features a foreword by film sound expert Rick Altman. The contributions investigate silent film sound from various theoretical and historical perspectives, drawing on regional researches from Sweden, Poland, Italy, Great Britain, Austria, India and the United States.
Anna K. Windisch was a doctoral research fellow at the Wirth Institute in 2011/12. After completing a project assistant position at the University of Salzburg (2012/13), she presently holds a two-year Fellowship at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Again in collaboration with Claus Tieber she is currently working on a monograph in German that will form the first systematic investigation of silent film music and sound in Viennese cinemas from 1895 to 1930.
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