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Film Sound: Theory and Practice
Elizabeth Weis
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Description for Film Sound: Theory and Practice
Paperback. Editor(s): Weis, Elisabeth; Belton, John. Num Pages: 462 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AJG; AJR; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 616. Theory and Practice. 462 pages, Ill. Editor(s): Weis, Elisabeth; Belton, John. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AJG; AJR; APF. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 24. Weight: 616.
This classic anthology provides essential models for analyzing sound stylistics through the detailed study of critical sound films. Elisabeth Weis and John Belton carefully curate major essays from the world's most respected film historians, aestheticians, and theorists, including Douglas Gomery, Barry Salt, Rick Altman, Mary Ann Doane, S. M. Eisenstein, V. I. Pudovkin, Rene Clair, Bela Belazs, Siegfried Kracauer, Christian Metz, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Noel Burch, and Arthur Knight. Their selections recount the innovations and triumphs of Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Rouben Mamoulian, Dziga Vertov, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, and Francis Ford Coppola, ... Read more
This classic anthology provides essential models for analyzing sound stylistics through the detailed study of critical sound films. Elisabeth Weis and John Belton carefully curate major essays from the world's most respected film historians, aestheticians, and theorists, including Douglas Gomery, Barry Salt, Rick Altman, Mary Ann Doane, S. M. Eisenstein, V. I. Pudovkin, Rene Clair, Bela Belazs, Siegfried Kracauer, Christian Metz, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Noel Burch, and Arthur Knight. Their selections recount the innovations and triumphs of Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Rouben Mamoulian, Dziga Vertov, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, and Francis Ford Coppola, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
462
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Condition
New
Number of Pages
462
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231056373
SKU
V9780231056373
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About Elizabeth Weis
Elisabeth Weis is professor of film at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and executive director of the National Society of Film Critics. She has written or edited books on sound, comedy, and star acting. John Belton is professor of English and film at Rutgers University and the author of five books, including ... Read more
Reviews for Film Sound: Theory and Practice
An extremely useful and wide-ranging collection of essays devoted to a topic often ignored or taken for granted by visually-dominated studies of the moving picture...
Gerald Mast, University of Chicago Both comprehensive in its choice of readings and creative in its editorial approach... Film Sound, as well as being an eminent introduction to the writings in the field, forcefully ... Read more
Gerald Mast, University of Chicago Both comprehensive in its choice of readings and creative in its editorial approach... Film Sound, as well as being an eminent introduction to the writings in the field, forcefully ... Read more