Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that--silent--no one has fully examined how sounds was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive …
Overview: Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how sounds was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on ex…
This book provides a soundmap to a hundred films that engage the ears. Covering titles as diverse as Car Wash and Apocalypse Now, Le Samourai and Stalker, Shaft and Citizen Kane each entry outlines the film's distinctive contribution to the hitherto underexplored world of sound …
First published in 1947, this account of the nature of film music aesthetics has a wider scope as a study of modern, industrialized culture, as well as being relevant to the whole area of cultural studies.
First published in 1947, this account of the nature of film music aesthetics has a wider scope as a study of modern, industrialized culture, as well as being relevant to the whole area of cultural studies.
This book is a major new study--dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and ephemeral character of film music dealing not only with traditional orchestral fi…
"Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs nave dominated popular culture in South Asia and the diaspora. Anna Morcom examines the subject from the perspectives of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, film music studies and South Asian studies. The uniqu…
"Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs nave dominated popular culture in South Asia and the diaspora. Anna Morcom examines the subject from the perspectives of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, film music studies and South Asian studies. The uniqu…
