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Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135923952
Sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity.
Author : Robert Spadoni
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520940703
In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly. By comparing this audience impression to the first sound horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched in the basic character of one of our most enduring film genres.
Author : Hannah Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190636005
The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that the debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding a range of French musical styles and genres shaped audiovisual cinematic experiments during the transition to sound. Lewis' book focuses on many of the most prominent directors and screenwriters of the period, from Luis Buñuel to Jean Vigo, as well as experiments found in lesser-known films. Additionally, Lewis examines how early sound film portrayed the diverse soundscape of early 1930s France, as filmmakers drew from the music hall, popular chanson, modernist composition, opera and operetta, and explored the importance of musical machines to depict and to shape French audiovisual culture. In this light, the author discusses the contributions of well-known composers for film alongside more popular music hall styles, all of which had a voice within the heterogeneous soundtrack of French sound cinema. By delving into this fascinating developmental period of French cinematic history, Lewis encourages readers to challenge commonly-held assumptions about how genres, media, and artistic forms relate to one another, and how these relationships are renegotiated during moments of technological change.
Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : OCLC:1078698403
Sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity.
Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 041596900X
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Katherine Spring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199842216
Saying It With Songs is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which Hollywood's conversion to synchronized-sound filmmaking in the late 1920s gave rise not only to enduring partnerships between the film and popular music industries, but also to a rich and exciting period of song use in American cinema.
Author : Trace Reddell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452957364
A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema Including original readings of classics like The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and Blade Runner, The Sound of Things to Come delivers a comprehensive history of sound in science fiction cinema. Approaching movies as sound objects that combine cinematic apparatus and consciousness, Trace Reddell presents a new theory of sonic innovation in the science fiction film. Reddell assembles a staggering array of movies from sixty years of film history—including classics, blockbusters, B-movies, and documentaries from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union—all in service to his powerful conception of sound making as a speculative activity in its own right. Reddell recasts debates about noise and music, while arguing that sound in the science fiction film provides a medium for alien, unknown, and posthuman sound objects that transform what and how we hear. Avoiding genre criticism’s tendency to obsess over utopias, The Sound of Things to Come draws on film theory, sound studies, and philosophies of technology to advance conversations about the avant-garde, while also opening up opportunities to examine cinematic sounds beyond the screen.
Author : Lilya Kaganovsky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253032669
1. This book presents the untold story of the role the emergence of cinematic sound had on Soviet politics and culture. The author contextualizes media technologies in the midst of the political and cultural environment of the early Soviet era. 2. The author is a returning IUP author who is extremely active in both Slavic studies and film and media studies. 3. This book with have a market among both film and Russian/East European studies scholars and is a strong contribution to IUPs growing international film history lists.
Author : Richard Abel,Rick R. Altman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253108705
The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.
Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : WISC:89052386620
Author : Andrew Ford
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458762948
The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of na...
Author : Mervyn Cooke,Fiona Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107094512
A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0415904579
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Charles O’Brien
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253217202
A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.
Author : Brian Selznick
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407166551
Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.