Cinema's conversion to sound : technology and film style in France and the U.S. / / Charles O'Brien

• Autore: O'Brien Charles <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/09
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes filmography: p. [191]-186.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-190) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 : pathe-natan and national popular cinema -- Conclusion: sound and national film style--past and present.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cinema's conversion to sound
• ISBN: 0-253-11112-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812443103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II