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9780253217202

Cinema's Conversion To Sound

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    9780253217202

  • ISBN10:

    0253217202

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-01
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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Summary

The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film image, the book investigates national differences in sound-image practice in a revised account of the global changeover from silent to sound cinema. Extending beyond recent Hollywood cinema, Charles O'Brien undertakes a geo-historical inquiry into sound technology's diffusion across national borders. Through an analysis that juxtaposes French and American filmmaking, he reveals the aesthetic consequences of fundamental national differences in how sound technologies were understood. Whereas the emphasis in 1930s Hollywood was on sound's intelligibility within a film's story-world, the stress in French filmmaking was on sound's fidelity as reproduction of the event staged for recording.

Author Biography

Charles O'Brien is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is co-translator (with Nell Andrew) of Francesco Casetti's Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator (IUP, 1998).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: National Cinema after Recorded Sound 1(16)
1. Sound's Impact on Film Style: The Case for Homogenization 17(27)
2. Film History after Recorded Sound: From Crisis to Continuity 44(20)
3. The Talkies in France: Imported Films as Exemplars 64(18)
4. Sound-Era Film Editing: International Norms, Local Commitments 82(25)
5. Shooting and Recording in Paris and Hollywood 107(29)
6. Hollywood Indigenized: Pathé-Natan and National Popular Cinema 136(20)
Conclusion: Sound and National Film Style-Past and Present 156(9)
Notes 165(26)
Filmography: French Films, 1930-1933 191(6)
Index 197

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