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
Table of Contents:
  • Sound's impact on film style : the case for homogenization
  • Film history after recorded sound : from crisis to continuity
  • The talkies in France : imported films as exemplars
  • Sound-era film editing : international norms, local commitments
  • Shooting and recording in Paris and Hollywood
  • Hollywood indigenized : pathé-natan and national popular cinema
  • Conclusion: sound and national film style--past and present.

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