Film Sound

PREFACE = ix PART I: HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, AND AESTHETICS = 1 INTRODUCTION = 3 The Coming of Sound: Technological Change in the American Film Industry / DOUGLAS GOMERY = 5 Economic Struggle and Hollywood Imperialism: Europe Converts to Sound / DOUGLAS GOMERY = 25 Film Style and Technology in the Thirties: Sound / BARRY SALT = 37 The Evolution of Sound Technology / RICK ALTMAN = 44 Ideology and the Practice of Sound Editing and Mixing / MARY ANN DOANE = 54 Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound / JOHN BELTON = 63 PART II: THEORY = 73 SECTION 1: CLASSICAL SOUND THEORY = 75 A Statement / S. M. EISENSTEIN, V. I. PUDOVKIN, and G. V. ALEXANDROV = 83 Asynchronism as a Principle of Sound Film / V. I. PUDOVKIN = 86 The Art of Sound / RENÉ CLAIR = 92 Manifesto: Dialogue on Sound / BASIL WRIGHT and B. VIVIAN BRAUN = 96 Sound in Films / ALBERTO CAVALCANTI = 98 A New Laocödn: Artistic Composites and the Talking Film / RUDOLF ARNHEIM = 112 Theory of the Film: Sound / BELA BALAZS = 116 Dialogue and Sound / SIEGFRIED KRACAUER = 126 Slow-Motion Sound / JEAN EPSTEIN = 143 SECTION 2: MODERN SOUND THEORY = 145 Notes on Sound / ROBERT BRESSON = 149 Direct Sound: An Interview with / JEAN-MARIE STRAUB and DANIELE HUILLET = 150 Aural Objects / CHRISTIAN METZ = 154 The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space / MARY ANN DOANE = 162 PART III: PRACTICE = 177 SECTION 1: PRACTICE AND METHODOLOGY = 179 Fundamental Aesthetics of Sound in the Cinema / DAVID BORDWELL and KRISTIN THOMPSON = 181 On the Structural Use of Sound / NOËL BURCH = 200 SECTION 2: PIONEERS = 210 The Movies Learn to Talk: Ernst Lubitsch, René Clair, and Rouben Mamoulian / ARTHUR KNIGHT = 213 American Sound Films, 1926-1930 / RON MOTTRAM = 221 Applause: The Visual and Acoustic Landscape / LUCY FISCHER = 232 Enthusiasm: From Kino-Eye to Radio-Eye / LUCY FISCHER = 247 Lang and Pabst: Paradigms for Early Sound Practice / NOËL CARROLL = 265 The Voice of Silence: Sound Style in John Stahl’s Back Street / MARTIN RUBIN = 277 SECTION 3: STYLISTS = 286 Orson Welles’s Use of Sound / PENNY MINTZ = 289 The Evolution of Hitchcock’s Aural Style and Sound in The Birds / ELISABETH WEIS = 298 The Sound Track of The Rules of the Game / MICHAEL LITLE = 312 Sound in Bresson’s Mouchette / LINDLEY HANLON = 323 Godard’s Use of Sound / ALAN WILLIAMS = 332 SECTION 4: CONTEMPORARY INNOVATORS = 346 Altman, Dolby, and The Second Sound Revolution / CHARLES SCHREGER = 348 Sound Mixing and Apocalypse Now: An Interview with Walter Murch / FRANK PAINE = 356 The Sound Designer / MARC MANCINI = 361 Sound and Silence in Narrative and Nonnarrative Cinema / FRED CAMPER = 369 APPENDIX: A NARRATIVE GLOSSARY OF FILM SOUND TECHNOLOGY / Stephen Handzo = 383 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY / Claudia Gorbman = 427 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS = 447 INDEX = 449

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