Early American Cinema
Early American Cinema

Author: Anthony Slide

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780810827226

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Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.

Early Cinema
Early Cinema

Author: Simon Popple

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 023185031X

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This book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject. It explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established itself as the leading form of visual culture among rapidly expanding global media, emerging from a rich tradition of scientific, economic, entertainment and educational practices and quickly developing as a worldwide institution.

Making Stereo Fit
Making Stereo Fit

Author: Eric Dienstfrey

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0520379551

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"Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit shows how Hollywood studios have instead been implementing surround-sound techniques for the past century and argues that their endurance owes primarily to the long-standing economic tension between stereophonic and monophonic sound. Throughout the book, Eric Dienstfrey analyzes newly discovered archival materials, as well as a myriad of stereo releases from Hell's Angels (1930) to Get Out (2017), to examine how Hollywood's dependence on single-channel sound left filmmakers unable to fully realize the aesthetic potential of surround sound. Though studios initially experimented with stereo's unique affordances, Dienstfrey details how film sound designers eventually codified a conservative set of surround-sound conventions that prevail today, despite the arrival of more immersive technologies"--