Sound theory, sound practice
By: edited by Rick Altman.
Contributors: Altman, Rick, 1945-
Series: AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Sound motion pictures; Motion pictures -- History
Description: Cinema as event - The material heterogeneity of recorded sound - Four and a half film fallacies - Sound space - Reading, writing and representing sound - She sang live, but the microphone was turned off: the live, the recorded, and the subject of representation - Sound/history - Historical and theoretical issues in the coming of recorded sound to the cinema - Translating America: the Hollywood multilinguals 1929-1933 - 1950s magnetic sound - Sound's dark corners - Women's voices in the Third World cinema - The sound of early Warner Bros. cartoons - Imagining the sound(s) of Shakespeare: film sound and adaptation - Conventions of sound in documentary - And then there was sound: the films of Andrei Tarkovsky - A baker's dozen of new terms for sound analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: The material heterogeneity of recorded sound ; Theoretical perspectives. Four and a half film fallacies ; Sound space
pagenum: Rick Altman; title: Reading, writing, and representing sound
pagenum: James Lastra; title: "She sang live, but the microphone was turned off" : the live, the recorded, and the subject of representation
pagenum: Steve Wurtzler; title: Wasted words
pagenum: Michel Chion; title: Historical speculations. Sound/history
pagenum: Rick Altman; title: Historical and theoretical issues in the coming of recorded sound to the cinema
pagenum: Alan Williams; title: Translating America : the Hollywood multilinguals 1929-1933
pagenum: Nataša Ďurovičová -; title: 1950s magnetic sound : the frozen revolution
pagenum: John Belton; title: Neglected domains. Sound's dark corners
pagenum: Rick Altman; title: Women's voices in third world cinema
pagenum: Amy Lawrence; title: The sound of early Warner Bros. cartoons
pagenum: Scott Curtis; title: Imagining the sound(s) of Shakespeare : film sound and adaptation
pagenum: Mary Pat Klimek; title: Conventions of sound in documentary
pagenum: Jeffrey K. Ruoff; title: And then there was sound : the films of Andrei Tarkovsky
pagenum: Andrea Truppin; title: A baker's dozen of new terms for sound analysis
pagenum: Rick Altman