| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project Muse
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| Contents |
Preview; Credits; Introduction: Sound and (Source) Music; Prologue: Small World, Big Sign; 1. House Sound: Reverb, Offscreen Sound, and Voice-Over Narration in Early Rko Noir; 2. Sonic Effects: Sound and Fury in Forties Noir; 3. Audio Technologies: Intercoms and Dictaphones, Telephones and Radios, Phonographs and Jukeboxes; 4. Blues in the Night: Popular and Classical Instrumental Source Music; 5. Singing Detectives and Bluesmen, Black Jazzwomen and Torch Singers; 6. The Big Number (Side B): Killing Them Softly; 7. The Big Number (A Side): Siren City; Epilogue: Silences; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Siren City engagingly illustrates how sound tracks in 1940s film noir are often just as compelling as the genre's vaunted graphics. Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, it resonates with the sounds and source music of classic American noir-gunshots and sirens, swing riffs and canaries. Along with the proverbial private eye and femme fatale, these audiovisuals are central to the noir aesthetic and one important reason the genre reverberates with audiences around the world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Film noir -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- Sound effects.
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Motion picture music -- History and criticism
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sound effects.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Film noir
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Motion picture music
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Motion pictures -- Sound effects
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010013760 |
| ISBN |
9780813553924 |
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081355392X |
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0813548985 |
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9780813548982 |
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0813548993 |
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9780813548999 |
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1283864282 |
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9781283864282 |
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