Title: Sound theory, sound practice
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.
Subjects: Motion pictures, history, Sound motion pictures, Motion pictures, sound effects, Motion pictures, History