Cinema's conversion to sound
Subtitle: technology and film style in France and the U.S.
By: Charles O'Brien.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Sound motion pictures -- History; Motion pictures -- France -- History; Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- France -- History -- 20th century; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes filmography: p. [191]-186.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sound's impact on film style : the case for homogenization; title: Film history after recorded sound : from crisis to continuity; title: The talkies in France : imported films as exemplars; title: Sound-era film editing : international norms, local commitments; title: Shooting and recording in Paris and Hollywood; title: Hollywood indigenized : pathé-natan and national popular cinema; title: Conclusion: sound and national film style; title: past and present.