Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135923957
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity.
The Coming of Sound
Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135923957
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135923957
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity.
The Talkies
Author: Donald Crafton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520221284
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This text offers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. The author presents a view of the talkies' reception, amongst other issues.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520221284
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This text offers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. The author presents a view of the talkies' reception, amongst other issues.
The Coming of Sound to the American Cinema
Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Sound Technology and the American Cinema
Author: James Lastra
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231505469
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect. Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film. Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231505469
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect. Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film. Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.
Sound and the Cinema
Author: Evan William Cameron
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Consists largely of proceedings of a symposium held at the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, N.Y., 1973.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Consists largely of proceedings of a symposium held at the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, N.Y., 1973.
The Coming of Sound
Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415969017
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415969017
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Coming of Sound to the American Cinema
Author: John Douglas Gomery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
American Cinema of the 1920s
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547156
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy. In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547156
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy. In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.
Saying It With Songs
Author: Katherine Spring
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199842213
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema. Saying It With Songs considers how the increasing interdependence of Hollywood studios and Tin Pan Alley music publishing firms influenced the commercial and narrative functions of popular songs. While most scholarship on film music of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, this book examines the functions of songs in a variety of non-musical genres, including melodramas, romantic comedies, Westerns, prison dramas, and action-adventure films, and shows how filmmakers tested and refined their approach to songs in order to reconcile the spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling, and the conventions of background orchestral scoring from the period of silent cinema. Written for film and music scholars alike as well as for general readers, Saying It With Songs illuminates the origins of the popular song score aesthetic of American cinema.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199842213
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema. Saying It With Songs considers how the increasing interdependence of Hollywood studios and Tin Pan Alley music publishing firms influenced the commercial and narrative functions of popular songs. While most scholarship on film music of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, this book examines the functions of songs in a variety of non-musical genres, including melodramas, romantic comedies, Westerns, prison dramas, and action-adventure films, and shows how filmmakers tested and refined their approach to songs in order to reconcile the spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling, and the conventions of background orchestral scoring from the period of silent cinema. Written for film and music scholars alike as well as for general readers, Saying It With Songs illuminates the origins of the popular song score aesthetic of American cinema.
Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Author: Charles O’Brien
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217202
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217202
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.