Siren City : Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir

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Siren City engagingly illustrates how sound tracks in 1940s film noir are often just as compelling as the genre's vaunted graphics. Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, it resonates with the sounds and source mus...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Miklitsch, Robert
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Motion pictures > Sound effects.
Motion picture music.
Film noir.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
sound effects.
Film, Musique de > Histoire et critique.
Cinema > Effets sonores.
Films noirs > Histoire et critique.
Motion picture music > History and criticism.
Film noir > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preview; Credits; Introduction: Sound and (Source) Music; Prologue: Small World, Big Sign; 1. House Sound: Reverb, Offscreen Sound, and Voice-Over Narration in Early Rko Noir; 2. Sonic Effects: Sound and Fury in Forties Noir; 3. Audio Technologies: Intercoms and Dictaphones, Telephones and Radios, Phonographs and Jukeboxes; 4. Blues in the Night: Popular and Classical Instrumental Source Music; 5. Singing Detectives and Bluesmen, Black Jazzwomen and Torch Singers; 6. The Big Number (Side B): Killing Them Softly; 7. The Big Number (A Side): Siren City; Epilogue: Silences; Notes; Index.

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