The Sounds of the Silents in Britain (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Brown, Julie; Davison, Annette

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain from the emergence of cinema to the introduction of synchronized sound. Written by experts on British silent film and film music, the chapters provide an introduction to diverse aspects of early film sound: vocal performance, from lecturing and reciting to voicing the drama; music, from developments in accompanying techniques to the impact of legislation on musical practice overall; and performance in cinemas more generally, from dancing and singalong films to live stage prologues. The book also debunks some of the myths about the sonic dimension of film exhibition: it reveals that exhibition practices in London were arguably more sophisticated than those in New York before the onset of World War I, for instance, and that venue licensing decisions had a profound effect on whether music could even be performed with film in some theatres. Based on extensive archival research and musicological analysis, The Sounds of the Silents in Britain represents an important addition to early film and film music scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199797646
• Artikelnr.: 38138148

Autorenporträt

Julie Brown is Reader in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has written on early twentieth-century music (especially Schoenberg and Bartók), television music and film music. Her publications include Bartók and the Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music, and Western Music and Race, which was awarded the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award. Annette Davison is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on film music and sound, music for the stage and for television. Publications include Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s (2004), Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide (2009), and, with Erica Sheen, American Dreams, Nightmare Visions: The Cinema of David Lynch (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Sounds of the Silents in Britain
* Julie Brown and Annette Davison
* Speaking to Pictures
* 1. Professional Lecturing in Early British Film Shows
* Joe Kember
* 2. "Now, where were we?" Ideal and Actual Early Cinema Lecturing
Practices in Britain, Germany and the US
* Judith Buchanan
* 3. Eric Williams: Speaking to Pictures
* Stephen Bottomore
* 4. Sounding Scottish: Sound Practices and Silent Cinema in Scotland
* Trevor Griffiths
* Accompanying pictures
* 5. "Suitable music": Accompaniment Practice in Early London Screen
Exhibition from R. W. Paul to the Picture Palaces
* Ian Christie
* 6. The Art of Not Playing to Pictures in British Cinemas, 1906-1914
* Jon Burrows
* 7. "The efforts of the wretched pianist: Learning to Play to the
Pictures in Britain, 1911-1913
* Andrew Higson
* 8. The Reception of British Exhibition Practices in The Moving
Picture World, 1907-1914
* James Buhler
* Performance in cinemas
* 9. Selsior Dancing Films, 1912-1917
* Stephen Bottomore
* 10. Song Performance in the Early Sound Shorts of British PathÃ(c)
* Derek B. Scott
* 11. Atmospheric Film Prologues and the British Film Trade Papers,
1919-1926
* Julie Brown, Royal Holloway
* 12. Animating the Audience: Singalong Films in Britain in the 1920s
* Malcolm Cook
* Musicians, Companies and Institutions
* 13. Workers' Rights and Performing Rights: Cinema Music and Musicians
Prior to Synchronized Sound
* Annette Davison
* 14. Sound at the Film Society
* John Riley
* 15. Edmund Meisel's "visual sound" in The Crimson Circle (1929): The
Case of the Vanishing Part-Talkie
* Fiona Ford
* Bibliography
* Index