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Author Altman, Rick, 1945-

Title Silent film sound / Rick Altman.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PN1995.75 .A46 2004    Available  ---
Description x, 462 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Series Film and culture
Film and culture.
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.
Silent films.
United States.
Motion pictures -- Sound effects -- History.
Motion pictures -- Sound effects.
History.
Motion picture music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion picture music.
Narration for silent films -- United States.
Narration for silent films.
Films muets -- Accompagnement (Narration) -- Histoire.
Films muets -- Accompagnement (Musique) -- Histoire.
Cinéma -- Effets sonores -- Histoire.
Film, Musique de -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
Films muets -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
ISBN 0231116624 cloth alkaline paper