Silent Film Sound

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Winner of the Theater Library Association Award
and the
Limina Award for Best Cinema Studies Book
Based on extensive original research and filled with gorgeous illustrations, Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the silent film period in America. Beginning with sound accompaniment and continuing through to the more familiar sound practices of the 1920s, renowned film historian Rick Altman discusses the variety of sound strategies cinema exhibitors used to differentiate their products. During the nickelodeon period prior to '1910, this Variety reached its zenith with carnival-like music, automatic pianos, small orchestras, lecturers, synchronized sound systems, and voices behind the screen. In the 1910s, musical accompaniment began to support a film's narrative and emotional content, with large theaters and blockbuster productions driving the development of new instruments, new music-publication projects, and a new style of film music. A... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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Winner of the Theater Library Association Award
and the
Limina Award for Best Cinema Studies Book
Based on extensive original research and filled with gorgeous illustrations, Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the silent film period in America. Beginning with sound accompaniment and continuing through to the more familiar sound practices of the 1920s, renowned film historian Rick Altman discusses the variety of sound strategies cinema exhibitors used to differentiate their products. During the nickelodeon period prior to '1910, this Variety reached its zenith with carnival-like music, automatic pianos, small orchestras, lecturers, synchronized sound systems, and voices behind the screen. In the 1910s, musical accompaniment began to support a film's narrative and emotional content, with large theaters and blockbuster productions driving the development of new instruments, new music-publication projects, and a new style of film music. A monumental achievement, Silent Film Sound challenges common assumptions about this period and reveals the complex and swiftly changing nature of silent American cinema.
"A stunningly original work the best single-volume history of American silent film."
—Tom Gunning, Film Quarterly
"Groundbreaking a crucial contribution to the scholarly understanding not only of early film sound, but also of the full range of film history."
—Kecia D. McBride, Film Criticism
"Revisionist film history at its best"
—Marshall Deutelbaum, New Review of Film and Television
"A magisterial effort of a type rarely seen in cinema today Altman's history is precise, reflective, and human."
- —Roger Odin, Cinéma Journal
"Nothing short of a classic, definitive work."
—]acoh Smith, Nineteehth-Century Theatre and Film
RICK ALTMAN is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The American Film Musical and Film/Genre; the editor of Sound Theory Sound Practice; and the coeditor of The Sounds of Early Cinema. Vissza