03200nam 2200661Ia 450 991081244310332120240410101143.00-253-11112-9(CKB)1000000000362405(EBL)255640(OCoLC)80242539(SSID)ssj0000122296(PQKBManifestationID)11135953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122296(PQKBWorkID)10122395(PQKB)10693538(MiAaPQ)EBC255640(OCoLC)66145327(MdBmJHUP)muse16663(Au-PeEL)EBL255640(CaPaEBR)ebr10118516(PPN)182145476(EXLCZ)99100000000036240520040426d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCinema's conversion to sound[electronic resource] technology and film style in France and the U.S. /Charles O'Brien1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20051 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34463-8 Includes filmography: p. [191]-186.Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-190) and index.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 : pathé-natan and national popular cinema -- Conclusion: sound and national film style--past and present.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 silentSound motion picturesHistoryMotion picturesFranceHistoryMotion picturesUnited StatesHistorySoundRecording and reproducingFranceHistory20th centurySoundRecording and reproducingUnited StatesHistory20th centurySound motion picturesHistory.Motion picturesHistory.Motion picturesHistory.SoundRecording and reproducingHistorySoundRecording and reproducingHistory791.43/09O'Brien Charles1955-1661568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812443103321Cinema's conversion to sound4017576UNINA