Andrea J Kelley

Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Positions what are called ""Soundies"" within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. Examining the dynamics between Soundies' short musical films, the Panoram's film-jukebox technology, their screening spaces and their popular discourse, Andrea J. Kelley provides an integrative approach to historic media exhibition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 197mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780813586342
• ISBN-10: 0813586348
• Artikelnr.: 50760658

Autorenporträt

Kelley, Andrea J

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Soundies Jukebox Films
Part I    Small Screen Encounters and Spatial Practices     
1    The Look-Listening Machine: The Panoram Jukebox and New Screen
Practices     
2    The Sites of Soundies: The Dynamics of Space and Screen         
3    Mobilizing Space: The Panoram goes to War    
Part II    Short Forms and Enduring Formations     
4    Up Close and Personal: The Shifting Aesthetics of the Jukebox Short  
 
5    "A Swing Half Breed": Soundies' Hybrid Identities and Raced
Attractions      
6    Post War Screens: Soundies on TV and the Rehash of the Film Jukebox  
 
Conclusion: Short and Sweet: Rescaling Screen Culture     
Acknowledgments 
Notes
Bibliography         
Index