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Overhearing film dialogue /
Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, "When a motion picture is at its best, it is long on action and short on dialogue." Little serious work has been done on the su...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, "When a motion picture is at its best, it is long on action and short on dialogue." Little serious work has been done on the subject of film dialogue, yet what characters say and how they say it has been crucial to our experience and understanding of every film since the coming of sound. |
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| Item Description: | Filmography: p. 289-295. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520924024 0520924029 0585394636 9780585394633 9780520221376 0520221370 9780520221383 0520221389 1597347922 9781597347921 |