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The Sounds of early cinema
- Title
- The Sounds of early cinema / edited by Richard Abel and Rick Altman.
- Publication
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 327 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Selected papers, rev., of Domitor's four-day Fifth Biennual Conference, hosted by the Motion Picture Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., during the first week of June 1998.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Papers in English; includes the original French texts of six papers in the appendix.
- Contents
- Early phonograph culture and moving pictures / Ian Christie -- Doing for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear / Tom Gunning -- Remarks on writing and technologies of sound in early cinema / Mats Björkin -- "Next slide please" : the Lantern Lecture in Britain, 1890-1910 / Richard Crangle -- The voices of silence / François Jost -- The event and the series : the decline of café-concerts, the failure of Gaumont's chronophone, and the birth of cinema as an art / Edouard Arnoldy -- Dialogues in early silent screenplays : what actors really said / Isabelle Raynauld -- The first transi-sounds of parallel editing / Bernard Perron -- Sound, the jump cut, and "trickality" in early Danish comedies / John Fullerton -- Setting the pace of a heartbeat : the use of sound elements in European melodramas before 1915 / Dominique Nasta -- Talking movie or silent theater? Creative experiments by Vasily Goncharov / Rashit M. Yangirov -- Sleighbells and moving pictures : on the trail of D.W. Robertson / Gregory Waller -- The story of Percy Peashaker : debates about sound effects in the early cinema / Stephen Bottomore -- That most American of attractions, the illustrated song / Richard Abel -- "The sensational acme of realism" : "talker" pictures as early cinema sound practice / Jeffrey Klenotic -- "Bells and whistles" : the sound of meaning in train travel film rides / Lauren Rabinovitz -- The noises of spectators, or the spectator as additive to the spectacle / Jean Châteauvert and André Gaudreault -- Early cinematographic spectacles : the role of sound accompaniment in the reception of moving images / Jacques Polet -- Sounding Canadian : early sound practices and nationalism in Toronto-based exhibition / Marta Braun and Charlie Keil -- The double silence of the "war to end all wars" / Germain Lacasse -- Domitor witnesses the first complete public presentation of the [Dickson experimental sound film] in the twentieth century / Patrick Loughney -- A "secondary action" or musical highlight? Melodic interludes in early film melodrama reconsidered / David Mayer and Helen Day-Mayer -- The living nickelodeon / Rick Altman -- Music for Kalem films : the special scores, with notes on Walter C. Simon / Herbert Reynolds -- The orchestration of affect : the motif of barbarism in Breil's The birth of a nation score / Jane Gaines and Neil Lerner.
- Call Number
- MFL 02-1646
- ISBN
- 025333988X (alk. paper)
- 0253214793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001001470
- OCLC
- 46401614
- Title
- The Sounds of early cinema / edited by Richard Abel and Rick Altman.
- Imprint
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Papers in English; includes the original French texts of six papers in the appendix.
- Added Author
- Abel, Richard, 1941-Altman, Rick, 1945-Domitor Conference (5th : 1998 : Library of Congress)
- Research Call Number
- MFL 02-1646