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Siren City : Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir /
Hailed for its dramatic expressionist visuals, film noir is one of the most prominent genres in Hollywood cinema. Yet, despite the "boom" in sound studies, the role of sonic effects and source music in classic American noir has not received the attention it deserves. Siren City engagingly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2011]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preview
- Credits
- Introduction: Sound and (Source) Music
- Prologue: Small World, Big Sign
- 1. House Sound: Reverb, Offscreen Sound, and Voice-Over Narration in Early RKO Noir
- 2. Sonic Effects: Sound and Fury in Forties Noir
- 3. Audio Technologies: Intercoms and Dictaphones, Telephones and Radios, Phonographs and Jukeboxes
- 4. Blues in the Night: Popular and Classical Instrumental Source Music
- 5. Singing Detectives and Bluesmen, Black Jazzwomen and Torch Singers
- 6. The Big Number (Side B): Killing Them Softly
- 7. The Big Number (A Side): Siren City
- Epilogue: Silences
- Notes
- Index