Silent Film Sound

Name: Silent Film Sound
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ISBN: 9780231116633

ISBN-10: 0231116632

ISBN-13: 9780231116633

Edition: 2007

Authors: Rick Altman

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Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that -- silent -- no one has fully examined how sound was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Soundreconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive original research and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, the book challenges the assumptions of earlier histories of this period in film and reveals the complexity and swiftly changing nature of American silent cinema. Contrary to received opinion, silent films were not always accompanied, nor were accompaniments uniform. Beginning with sound practices before cinema's first decade and continuing through to the…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 0.80" wide x 0.99" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Rick Altman is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The American Film Musicaland Film/Genre; the editor of Sound Theory Sound Practice; and the coeditor of The Sounds of Early Cinema.



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