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Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1135923957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity.
Author: Douglas Gomery
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 640
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Crafton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-11-22
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780520221284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text offers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. The author presents a view of the talkies' reception, amongst other issues.
Author: Evan William Cameron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsists largely of proceedings of a symposium held at the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, N.Y., 1973.
Author: James Lastra
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000-07-18
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0231505469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresentational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect. Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film. Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.
Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780415969017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: John Douglas Gomery
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1022
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009-04-15
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0813547156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy. In ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1920s examines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.
Author: Jeanine Basinger
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extraordinary book--published to commemorate the centennial celebration of the birth of American film and a 10-part PBS-TV series scheduled for the new year--surveys the phenomenon that is Hollywood, past and present. With more than 200 illustrations, 100 in full color, and including some never before published, this book celebrates the best of American films.
Author: Katherine Spring
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0199842213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema. Saying It With Songs considers how the increasing interdependence of Hollywood studios and Tin Pan Alley music publishing firms influenced the commercial and narrative functions of popular songs. While most scholarship on film music of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, this book examines the functions of songs in a variety of non-musical genres, including melodramas, romantic comedies, Westerns, prison dramas, and action-adventure films, and shows how filmmakers tested and refined their approach to songs in order to reconcile the spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling, and the conventions of background orchestral scoring from the period of silent cinema. Written for film and music scholars alike as well as for general readers, Saying It With Songs illuminates the origins of the popular song score aesthetic of American cinema.
