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

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, Charles, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 to.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes filmography: pages 191-186.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index.
ISBN:0253111129
9780253111128
9780253344632
0253344638
0253217202
9780253217202