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Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound - Transatlantic Trends (Hardcover)
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Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound - Transatlantic Trends (Hardcover)
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How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production,
viewing experience, and global export of movies? In Movies, Songs,
and Electric Sound, Charles O'Brien examines American and European
musical films created circa 1930, when the world's sound-equipped
theaters screened movies featuring recorded songs and filmmakers in
the United States and Europe struggled to meet the artistic and
technical challenges of sound production and distribution. The
presence of singers in films exerted special pressures on film
technique, lending a distinct look and sound to the films' musical
sequences. Rather than advancing a film's plot, songs in these
films were staged, filmed, and cut to facilitate the singer's
engagement with her or his public. Through an examination of the
export market for sound films in the early 1930s, when German and
American companies used musical films as a vehicle for competing to
control the world film trade, this book delineates a new
transnational context for understanding the Hollywood musical.
Combining archival research with the cinemetric analysis of
hundreds of American, German, French, and British films made
between 1927 and 1934, O'Brien provides the historical context
necessary for making sense of the aesthetic impact of changes in
film technology from the past to the present.
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