Cinema's conversion to sound : technology and film style in France and the U.S. / Charles O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Charles, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound motion pictures--History.

Sound motion pictures.

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--France--History--20th century.

Sound.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film image, the book investigates national differences in sound-image practice in a revised account of the global changeover from silent

Contents:

Sound's impact on film style : the case for homogenization

Film history after recorded sound : from crisis to continuity

The talkies in France : imported films as exemplars

Sound-era film editing : international norms, local commitments

Shooting and recording in Paris and Hollywood

Hollywood indigenized : pathe-natan and national popular cinema

Conclusion: sound and national film style

past and present.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmography: p. [191]-186.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-190) and index.

ISBN:

0-253-11112-9

OCLC:

80242539