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O'Brien Charles <1955-> |
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Cinema's conversion to sound [[electronic resource] ] : technology and film style in France and the U.S. / / Charles O'Brien |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Sound motion pictures - History |
Motion pictures - France - History |
Motion pictures - United States - History |
Sound - Recording and reproducing - France - History - 20th century |
Sound - Recording and reproducing - United States - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes filmography: p. [191]-186. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-190) and index. |
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Sound's impact on film style : the case for homogenization -- Film history after recorded sound : from crisis to continuity -- The talkies in France : imported films as exemplars -- Sound-era film editing : international norms, local commitments -- Shooting and recording in Paris and Hollywood -- Hollywood indigenized : patheĢ-natan and national popular cinema -- Conclusion: sound and national film style--past and present. |
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The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film image, the book investigates national differences in sound-image practice in a revised account of the global changeover from silent |
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