Robert Miklitsch

Siren City

Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Siren City 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 music of classic American noir-gunshots and sirens, swing riffs and canaries. Along with the proverbial private eye and femme fatale, these audiovisuals are central to the noir aesthetic and one important reason the genre reverberates with audiences around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780813548999
• ISBN-10: 0813548993
• Artikelnr.: 30692052

Autorenporträt

Miklitsch, Robert

Inhaltsangabe

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