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Autore: |
O'Brien Charles <1955->
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Titolo: |
Cinema's conversion to sound : technology and film style in France and the U.S. / / Charles O'Brien
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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 |
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