Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 191-186.
Sound's impact on film style : the case for homogenization -- Film history after recorded sound : from crisis to continuity -- The talkies in France : imported films as exemplars -- Sound-era film editing : international norms, local commitments -- Shooting and recording in Paris and Hollywood -- Hollywood indigenized : pathé-natan and national popular cinema -- Conclusion: sound and national film style--past and present.
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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 alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film image, the book investigates national differences in sound-image practice in a revised account of the global changeover from silent to.
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Motion pictures-- France-- History.
Motion pictures-- United States-- History.
Sound motion pictures-- History.
Sound-- Recording and reproducing-- France-- History-- 20th century.
Sound-- Recording and reproducing-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Cinéma-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Cinéma-- France-- Histoire.
Films sonores-- Histoire.
Son-- Enregistrement et reproduction-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Son-- Enregistrement et reproduction-- France-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.