Siren City : : Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir /

Siren City : : Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir / / Robert Miklitsch.

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Hailed for its dramatic expressionist visuals, film noir is one of the most prominent genres in Hollywood cinema. Yet, despite the "boom" in sound studies, the role of sonic effects and source music in classic American noir has not received the attention it deserves. Siren City engagingly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Miklitsch, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 24 illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preview
  • Credits
  • Introduction: Sound and (Source) Music
  • Prologue: Small World, Big Sign
  • 1. House Sound: Reverb, Offscreen Sound, and Voice-Over Narration in Early RKO Noir
  • 2. Sonic Effects: Sound and Fury in Forties Noir
  • 3. Audio Technologies: Intercoms and Dictaphones, Telephones and Radios, Phonographs and Jukeboxes
  • 4. Blues in the Night: Popular and Classical Instrumental Source Music
  • 5. Singing Detectives and Bluesmen, Black Jazzwomen and Torch Singers
  • 6. The Big Number (Side B): Killing Them Softly
  • 7. The Big Number (A Side): Siren City
  • Epilogue: Silences
  • Notes
  • Index

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