Screen LibraryA history of film music
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxi, 562 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521811736 (hardback) 0521811732 (hardback) 9780521010481 (pbk.) 0521010489 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | J617 |
| CLC: |
J617.6-09 J609 |
| Call Number: | J617.6-09/C773 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1: Silent Cinema -- Why sound? -- Why music? -- Birth of film music -- Categories of film music -- Camille Saint-Saens and film d'art -- Cue sheets and anthologies -- Venues and ensembles -- Photoplayers and cinema organs -- Music for silent epics -- Charlie Chaplin and music for comedies -- Early film music in Europe and the Soviet Union -- Postlude: the silent-film revival -- 2: Sound On Track -- Sound debate -- New technology -- Photographing sound -- Animated sound -- Creative possibilities -- 3: Hollywood's Golden Age: Narrative Ci From the Publisher: Mervyn Cooke provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focusing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual fi |