FILM AND CULTURE SERIES
After the Silents
Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 Michael Slowik
“With a thorough investigation of hundreds of conversion-era feature films, Michael Slowik has provided an important revision of film music history to account for a wide range of scoring practices. After the Silents is impressive scholarship and a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in film sound." —Jennifer Fleeger, author of Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz
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).
Deathwatch
American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
C. Scott Combs “Exciting and brimming with original insights. Given cinema's eternal fascination with death, coupled with film theory's obsessive need to explore the crossroads of photographic representation and the end of life, Combs's ambitious attempts to interweave these concerns are welcome and illuminating." —Adam Lowenstein, author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film
“Combs shows that death in cinema is never just a random theme, but forms an essential aspect of a film's narrative structure and stylistics....One of the most impressive works I have read in recent years." —Tom Gunning, author of The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16347-7 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16346-0 2014 288 pages / 23 illus.
$30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16583-9 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16582-2 2014 400 pages / 60 illus.
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