The Sounds of Silent Films [electronic resource] : New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice /
Tieber, Claus.author.
Windisch, Anna Katharina.author.
The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: 'The Birth of Cinema from the Spirit of Music'; Part I: The Historical Practice of Silent Film Sound; 1 Organizing a Music Library for Playing to Pictures: Theory vs. Practice in Britain; 2 The Formation of a Swedish Cinema Music Practice, 1905-1915; 3 The Use of Cue Sheets in Italian Silent Cinema: Contexts, Repertoires, Praxis; 4 Music, Singing and Stage Practice in the Cinemas of Upper Silesia During the 1920s; 5 The Sound of Music in Vienna's Cinemas, 1910-1930
6 The Moving Picture World, W. Stephen Bush and the American Reception of European Cinema Practices, 1907-19137 Musical Beginnings and Trends in 1920s Indian Cinema; Part II: New Approaches to Silent Film Music History and Theory; 8 Deconstructing the 'Brutal Savage' in John Ford's The Iron Horse; 9 'The Hermeneutic Framing of Film Illustration Practice': The Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik in the Context of Historico-musicological Traditions; 10 Sergei Eisenstein and the Music of Landscape: The 'Mists' of Potemkin between Metaphor and Illustration
11 Paradoxes of Autonomy: Bernd Thewes's Compositions to the Rhythmus-films of Hans Richter12 The Tradition of Novelty - Comparative Studies of Silent Film Scores: Perspectives, Challenges, Proposals; 13 Germaine Dulac's La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) and the Film Scores by Arthur Kleiner and Manfred Knaak; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.
Music.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Communication.
Music.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Media Studies.