Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2005. 216 pages. Language:
English.
The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a
homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's
diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to
Sound offers an alteative assessment of synchronous sound's
impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in
contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive conce with the
film image, the book investigates national differences in
sound-image practice in a revised account of the global changeover
from silent to sound cinema. Extending beyond recent Hollywood
cinema, Charles O'Brien undertakes a geo-historical inquiry into
sound technology's diffusion across national borders. Through an
analysis that juxtaposes French and American filmmaking, he reveals
the aesthetic consequences of fundamental national differences in
how sound technologies were understood. Whereas the emphasis in
1930s Hollywood was on sound's intelligibility within a film's
story-world, the stress in French filmmaking was on sound's
fidelity as reproduction of the event staged for recording.
O'Brien Charles. Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the US
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