Description |
x, 462 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
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Film and culture
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Film and culture.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-448) and index. |
Contents |
I: Methodology -- The history of silent film sound -- Crisis historiography -- II: The late-nineteenth-century soundscape -- The musical scene -- Lecture logic -- III: Early film sound -- From peep show to projection -- Vaudeville -- IV: Nickelodeon sound -- The crisis of the late Aughts -- Lectures, sound effects, and the itinerant exhibition model -- Films that talk -- The nickelodeon program -- Nickelodeon music -- V: The campaign to standardize sound -- Trade press discourse -- Music for films -- Training musicians, training audiences -- VI: The golden era of silent film music -- Moving picture orchestras come of age -- New roles for keyboard instruments -- Cue sheets and photoplay music -- Musical practices. |
Subject |
Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Silent films. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures -- Sound effects -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Sound effects. |
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History. |
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Motion picture music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture music. |
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Narration for silent films -- United States.
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Narration for silent films. |
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Films muets -- Accompagnement (Narration) -- Histoire. |
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Films muets -- Accompagnement (Musique) -- Histoire. |
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Cinéma -- Effets sonores -- Histoire. |
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Film, Musique de -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique. |
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Films muets -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique. |
ISBN |
0231116624 cloth alkaline paper |
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