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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Brien, Charles, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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.
Films sonores > Histoire.
Cinéma > France > Histoire.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire.
Son > Enregistrement et reproduction > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Son > Enregistrement et reproduction > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Motion pictures
Sound motion pictures
Sound > Recording and reproducing
Film
France
United States
Frankreich
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes filmography: pages 191-186.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index.
ISBN:0253111129
9780253111128
9780253344632
0253344638
0253217202
9780253217202

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