Research Catalog
Silent film sound
- Title
- Silent film sound / Rick Altman.
- Author
- Altman, Rick, 1945-
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
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Details
- Description
- x, 462 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Film and culture
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
- Call Number
- JMF 05-127
- ISBN
- 0231116624 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231116626 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231116632 (pbk: alk. paper)
- 9780231116633 (pbk: alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004045529
- OCLC
- 54670072
- Author
- Altman, Rick, 1945-
- Title
- Silent film sound / Rick Altman.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
- Series
- Film and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-448) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JMF 05-127