Siren City : Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir /
Despite the pervasive presence of musical numbers in classic film noir, not to mention the use of voice-over and hard-boiled dialogue, the genre like the medium in general, motion pictures has been viewed primarily in visual terms, whether it's high-contrast lighting or night-for-night shooting...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2011
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir
- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir
- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes
- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music
- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers
- The big number (side b) : killing them softly
- The big number (a side) : siren city.