| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
Overture / Julie Brown, Annette Davison -- Professional lecturing in Early British Film shows / Joe Kember -- "Now, where were we?" ideal and actual early cinema lecturing practices in Britain, Germany and the United States / Judith Buchanan -- Eric Williams: speaking to pictures / Stephen Bottomore -- Sounding Scottish: sound practices and silent cinema in Scotland / Trevor Griffiths -- "Suitable music": accompaniment practice in early London screen exhibition from R.W. Paul to the Picture Palaces / Ian Christie -- The art of not "playing to pictures" in British cinemas, 1906-1914 / Jon Burrows -- "The efforts of the wretched pianist": learning to play to the pictures in Britain, 1911-1913 / Andrew Higson -- The reception of British exhibition practices in moving picture world, 1907-1914 / James Buhler -- Selsior dancing films, 1912-1917 / Stephen Bottomore -- Song of performance in the early sound shorts British pathé / Derek B. Scott -- Framing the atmospheric film prologue in Britain, 1919-1926 / Julie Brown -- Animating the audience: singalong films in Britain in the 1920s / Malcolm Cook -- Workers' rights and performing rights: cinema music and musicians prior to synchronized sound / Annette Davison -- Sound at the film society / John Riley -- Edmund Meisel's "visual sound" in The crimson circle (1929): the case of the vanishing part-talkie / Fiona Ford |
| Summary |
This title explores the sonic dimension of film exhibition in Britain, from the emergence of cinema through to the introduction of synchronized sound. Edited by Julie Brown and Annette Davison, the volume includes original scholarship from many highly-regarded experts on British silent film from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, such as film history, theatre studies, economic history, and musicology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Silent film music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Silent films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Silent films -- Great Britain -- Musical accompaniment
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Silent film music
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Silent films
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Silent films -- Musical accompaniment
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Julie (Julie A.), 1963-
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Davison, Annette, 1971-
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| ISBN |
9780199797646 |
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0199797641 |
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9780199979738 |
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0199979731 |
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