Literature and sound film in mid-century Britain / Lara Ehrenfried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehrenfried, Lara, author.

Series:

Oxford mid-century studies.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford mid-century studies

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and literature--History--20th century.

Motion pictures and literature.

Sound in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

What happened to cinema and literature when synchronized sound was introduced to the film industry in the late 1920s? This book studies the paths of film and text following this event. It asks how British cinema responded to the introduction of sound and how mid-century literature took up the challenge of the synchronized, audio-visual entertainment experience offered by this media change.

Contents:

Cover

Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Audio-Vision and Synchronicity

Looking Ahead

1: Learning to Talk

Beyond Blackmail

Sound Film and the Mid-Century Writer

2: Adapting Audio-Vision

Stage Entertainment and Early Sound Film

Evelyn Waugh's Musical Revue

Isherwood's Weimar Cabaret and the Musical Film

3: Dialogue and Intelligibility

Screen Talk

The Divorce of Lady X (1938)

Elizabeth Bowen on Dialogue

Henry Green on Speech and Vision

Dialogue and Scenic Narration in the Novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett

4: Documenting the Everyday

Audio-Vision and Documentary Film in the 1930s

Sunset Song as Documentary Experiment

George Orwell and the Limits of the Novel

5: Networks of Audio-Vision

Thriller Sound

Ambler's Silence and Greene's Audio-Vision

Wired Minds

6: The Senses at War

Writing the Home Front

The Gainsborough Melodrama

: Coda

Films Cited

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 13, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-895079-9

0-19-895077-2

OCLC:

1513535303