Jennifer Fleeger

Sounding American

Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz looks at the role played by 1920s musical shorts in crafting studio identity and establishing American film sound. It argues that the persistence of opera and jazz on the soundtrack during and after the conversion produces a fragmentary text and encourages an active spectator.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780199366491
• ISBN-10: 0199366497
• Artikelnr.: 40097460

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Fleeger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College. Her second book, Mismatched Women: The Voice Meets the Machine, will also appear in Oxford's Music/Media Series.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1 Archiving America: Sound Technology and Musical
Representation
* Chapter 2 Opera Cut Short: From the Castrato to the Film Fragment
* Chapter 3 Selling Jazz Short: Hollywood and the Fantasy of Musical
Agency
* Chapter 4 Opera and Jazz in the Score: Toward a New Spectatorship
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Filmography
* Index