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

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

Siren City engagingly illustrates how sound tracks in 1940s film noir are often just as compelling as the genre's vaunted graphics. Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, it resonates with the sounds and source mus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miklitsch, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Subjects:
Film noir > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Sound effects.
Motion picture music > History and criticism.
sound effects.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Film noir
Motion picture music
Motion pictures > Sound effects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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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