Siren city
Subtitle: sound and source music in classic American noir
By: Robert Miklitsch
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780813548982; 9780813548999
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture music; Sound effects; Film noir; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir; title: Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir; title: Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes; title: Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music; title: Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers; title: The big number (side b) : killing them softly; title: The big number (a side) : siren city.