The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings)

The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings)

The Silent Village (Humphrey Jennings, 1943) is a semi-documentary based on the infamous massacre of Lidice, perpetrated in June 1942 in retaliation for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich by Czechoslovak resistance fighters. Instead of Czechoslovakia, the film takes place in the mini...

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Prif Awdur: Jorge, Anita
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Cyhoeddwyd: Mise au point 2024
Pynciau:
résistance
cinéma documentaire
gallois
Seconde Guerre mondiale
paysage sonore
resistance
documentary film
Welsh language
Second World War
soundscape
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:map_7204 https://doi.org/10.4000/12d76 urn:doi:10.4000/12d76 en https://journals.openedition.org/map/7204 2024-09-26T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/12d76 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings) Mise au point Association française des enseignants et chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2261-9623 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/map Jorge, Anita résistance cinéma documentaire gallois Seconde Guerre mondiale paysage sonore resistance documentary film Welsh language Second World War soundscape The Silent Village (Humphrey Jennings, 1943) is a semi-documentary based on the infamous massacre of Lidice, perpetrated in June 1942 in retaliation for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich by Czechoslovak resistance fighters. Instead of Czechoslovakia, the film takes place in the mining village of Cwmgiedd in South Wales, where Welsh was the majority language. Although only a minority of the UK population spoke Welsh, Jennings decided to keep most dialogues untranslated for two reasons: to lend the film “authenticity”, and because it might suggest that it was Czech. However, considering Welsh through the sole prism of its proximity with Czech would be missing part of the film’s point. In fact, The Silent Village can be read as containing myriad political messages expressed through the treatment of the Welsh language and the sounds associated with the community of Cwmgiedd: resistance to the German enemy, but also the struggle for linguistic and cultural diversity and against the policy of linguistic assimilation implemented by the British government. The Silent Village (Humphrey Jennings, 1943) est un semi-documentaire inspiré du massacre de Lidice perpétré en juin 1942 en représailles à l'assassinat du SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich par des résistants tchécoslovaques. Le film ne se déroule pas en Tchécoslovaquie mais dans le village minier de Cwmgiedd, dans le sud du Pays de Galles, où le gallois était la langue majoritaire. Bien qu’une minorité de la population britannique eût été galloisante, Jennings prit le parti de ne pas traduire la plupart des dialogues afin de rendre le film plus « authentique » et de suggérer une proximité avec la langue tchèque. On ne saurait cependant considérer le statut du gallois dans le film à travers ce seul prisme. En effet, le traitement de la langue galloise et des sons associés à la communauté de Cwmgiedd dans The Silent Village contient de nombreux messages politiques : résistance à l'ennemi allemand, mais aussi lutte pour la diversité linguistique et culturelle et contre la politique d'assimilation linguistique mise en œuvre par le gouvernement britannique.
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topic résistance
cinéma documentaire
gallois
Seconde Guerre mondiale
paysage sonore
resistance
documentary film
Welsh language
Second World War
soundscape
spellingShingle résistance
cinéma documentaire
gallois
Seconde Guerre mondiale
paysage sonore
resistance
documentary film
Welsh language
Second World War
soundscape
Jorge, Anita
The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings)
description The Silent Village (Humphrey Jennings, 1943) is a semi-documentary based on the infamous massacre of Lidice, perpetrated in June 1942 in retaliation for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich by Czechoslovak resistance fighters. Instead of Czechoslovakia, the film takes place in the mining village of Cwmgiedd in South Wales, where Welsh was the majority language. Although only a minority of the UK population spoke Welsh, Jennings decided to keep most dialogues untranslated for two reasons: to lend the film “authenticity”, and because it might suggest that it was Czech. However, considering Welsh through the sole prism of its proximity with Czech would be missing part of the film’s point. In fact, The Silent Village can be read as containing myriad political messages expressed through the treatment of the Welsh language and the sounds associated with the community of Cwmgiedd: resistance to the German enemy, but also the struggle for linguistic and cultural diversity and against the policy of linguistic assimilation implemented by the British government.
author Jorge, Anita
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title The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings)
title_short The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings)
title_full The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings)
title_fullStr The Politics of the Welsh Language and Sounds in The Silent Village (1943, dir. Humphrey Jennings)
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