| Description |
vi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
AFI film readers |
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AFI film readers.
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| Contents |
The material heterogeneity of recorded sound ; Theoretical perspectives. Four and a half film fallacies ; Sound space / Rick Altman -- Reading, writing, and representing sound / James Lastra -- "She sang live, but the microphone was turned off" : the live, the recorded, and the subject of representation / Steve Wurtzler -- Wasted words / Michel Chion -- Historical speculations. Sound/history / Rick Altman -- Historical and theoretical issues in the coming of recorded sound to the cinema / Alan Williams -- Translating America : the Hollywood multilinguals 1929-1933 / Nataša Ďurovičová -- 1950s magnetic sound : the frozen revolution / John Belton -- Neglected domains. Sound's dark corners / Rick Altman -- Women's voices in third world cinema / Amy Lawrence -- The sound of early Warner Bros. cartoons / Scott Curtis -- Imagining the sound(s) of Shakespeare : film sound and adaptation / Mary Pat Klimek -- Conventions of sound in documentary / Jeffrey K. Ruoff -- And then there was sound : the films of Andrei Tarkovsky / Andrea Truppin -- A baker's dozen of new terms for sound analysis / Rick Altman |
| Summary |
Cinema as event - The material heterogeneity of recorded sound - Four and a half film fallacies - Sound space - Reading, writing and representing sound - She sang live, but the microphone was turned off: the live, the recorded, and the subject of representation - Sound/history - Historical and theoretical issues in the coming of recorded sound to the cinema - Translating America: the Hollywood multilinguals 1929-1933 - 1950s magnetic sound - Sound's dark corners - Women's voices in the Third World cinema - The sound of early Warner Bros. cartoons - Imagining the sound(s) of Shakespeare: film sound and adaptation - Conventions of sound in documentary - And then there was sound: the films of Andrei Tarkovsky - A baker's dozen of new terms for sound analysis |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) |
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Cinema Films (Motion pictures) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- History.
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Sound motion pictures.
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| Author |
Altman, Rick, 1945-
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| LC no. |
91046026 |
| ISBN |
0415904560 (HB : acid-free paper) |
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0415904579 (PB : acid-free paper) |
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