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After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Michael Slowik
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Description for After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, 60 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926-1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period, Michael Slowik launches the first comprehensive study of a long-neglected phase in Hollywood's initial development, recasting the history of film sound and its relationship to the Golden Age of film music (1935-1950). Slowik follows filmmakers' shifting combinations of sound and image, recapturing the volatility of this era and the ... Read more
Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926-1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period, Michael Slowik launches the first comprehensive study of a long-neglected phase in Hollywood's initial development, recasting the history of film sound and its relationship to the Golden Age of film music (1935-1950). Slowik follows filmmakers' shifting combinations of sound and image, recapturing the volatility of this era and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
536g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231165839
SKU
V9780231165839
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About Michael Slowik
Michael Slowik is assistant professor of television, film, and new media at San Diego State University. His work appears in Cinema Journal; American Music; The Journal of American Culture; Journal of Popular Film and Television; Music, Sound, and the Moving Image; Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film; and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
Reviews for After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Slowik not only sketches out the important trends and developments of this nascent period of classical film music history but also makes a compelling argument that there are important continuities that connect the mature silent period with the early sound period.
Jeff Smith, author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music With a thorough investigation of hundreds ... Read more
Jeff Smith, author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music With a thorough investigation of hundreds ... Read more