The Coming of Sound
Title | The Coming of Sound PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Gomery |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2005-07-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1135923957 |
Sound 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.
The Coming of Sound to the American Cinema
Title | The Coming of Sound to the American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Gomery |
Publisher | |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Motion picture industry |
ISBN |
The Talkies
Title | The Talkies PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Crafton |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 1999-11-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520221284 |
This 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.
Sound Technology and the American Cinema
Title | Sound Technology and the American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | James Lastra |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2000-07-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0231505469 |
Representational 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.
Sound and the Cinema
Title | Sound and the Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Evan William Cameron |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Consists largely of proceedings of a symposium held at the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, N.Y., 1973.
The Coming of Sound
Title | The Coming of Sound PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Gomery |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780415969017 |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
American Cinema of the 1920s
Title | American Cinema of the 1920s PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Fischer |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2009-04-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0813547156 |
During 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.