LEADER 03200nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910812443103321 005 20240410101143.0 010 $a0-253-11112-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000362405 035 $a(EBL)255640 035 $a(OCoLC)80242539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122296 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135953 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122296 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10122395 035 $a(PQKB)10693538 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC255640 035 $a(OCoLC)66145327 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16663 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL255640 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10118516 035 $a(PPN)182145476 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000362405 100 $a20040426d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCinema's conversion to sound$b[electronic resource] $etechnology and film style in France and the U.S. /$fCharles O'Brien 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-34463-8 320 $aIncludes filmography: p. [191]-186. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-190) and index. 327 $aSound'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 : pathe?-natan and national popular cinema -- Conclusion: sound and national film style--past and present. 330 $aThe 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 606 $aSound motion pictures$xHistory 606 $aMotion pictures$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSound$xRecording and reproducing$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSound$xRecording and reproducing$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aSound motion pictures$xHistory. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 615 0$aSound$xRecording and reproducing$xHistory 615 0$aSound$xRecording and reproducing$xHistory 676 $a791.43/09 700 $aO'Brien$b Charles$f1955-$01661568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812443103321 996 $aCinema's conversion to sound$94017576 997 $aUNINA