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Adaptations in the sound era : 1927-37 / Deborah Cartmell London: UK Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015.
Call No: 753.1 CARAuthor: Cartmell, Deborah Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: UK Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing IncPubDate: 2015PhysDes: vii, 166 pages ; 24 cm.Series: Bloomsbury adaptation historiesSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Summary: There is no disputing that the coming of sound heralded a new era for adaptations. We take it for granted today that a film is enhanced by sound but it was not a view unanimously held in the early period of sound cinema. While there was a substantial degree of skepticism in the late 1920s and early 30s about the advantages of sound, what we would call technophobia today, the inclusion of speech in screen versions of literary and theatrical works, undeniably revised what it was to be an adaptation: words. Focusing on promotional materials, Adaptations in the Sound Era tracks early attempts to promote sound through the elevation of words in adaptations in the early sound period. The popular appeal of these films clearly stands in opposition to academic regard for them and the book reflects on the presence and marketing of 'words' in a variety of adaptations, from the introduction of sound in the late 1920s to the mid 1930s. This book contextualizes a range of adaptations in relation to debates about 'picturizations' of books in the early sound era, including reactions to the talking adaptation by writers such as, Irwin Panofsky, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene. Film adaptations of Shakespeare, Dickens, gothic fiction and biopics are also discussed in relation to their use and promotion of sound or, more precisely, words -- TAKEN FROM PUBLISHER'S SITENotes: Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781623568788Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: `Singin in the Rain': Adapting Literature to Film, 1927--37 -- 2.Sound Shakespeare -- 3.Sound Dickens -- 4.Gothic Adaptations `Sell It for Its Horror': 1931 Gothic/Horror Adaptations and the Victory of the Shadow -- 5.Biopic Adaptations: Adapting Charles Laughton -- 6.Adaptations for Children: From Pre-Code to Post-Code Hollywood -- 7.Conclusions: Radical Adaptations.
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The best American movie writing 1999 / edited by Peter Bogdanovich New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
Call No: 67(04) BESPlace: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin'sPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 280 p.Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; BOORMAN, JOHN ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; SINATRA, FRANK ; FORD, JOHN ; THOMPSON, KAY ; YASUJIRO OZU ; MANGOLD, JAMES ; RISKIN, ROBERT ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; MCCAREY, LEO ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDAL, GORE ; DOVE, BILLIE ; GRANT, CARY ; BURNETT, CHARLES ; HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; EVE'S BAYOU (US, Kasi Lemons, 1997) ; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) ; L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (US, Curtis Hanson, 1997) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998) ; RONIN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1998) ; STARDUST MEMORIES (US, Woody Allen, 1980) ; TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; DETOUR (US, Edgar G. Ulmer, ,1946) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931) ; WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974) ISBN: 0312244832ID2: 291
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The birth of the talkies : from Edison to Jolson / Harry M. Geduld Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1975].
Call No: 70"1" GEDAuthor: Geduld, Harry M Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: [1975]PhysDes: xiii, 337 p. ; ill. ; 25 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0253107431LON: 443560
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Cinesonic : the world of sound in film / edited by Philip Brophy North Ryde, N.S.W.: Australian Film, Television & Radio School, 1999.
Call No: 634 CINAuthor: Brophy, Philip CorpAuthor: Australian Film, Television and Radio SchoolPlace: North Ryde, N.S.W.Publisher: Australian Film, Television & Radio SchoolPubDate: 1999PhysDes: vii, 266 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSubject: SOUND ; COMPOSING ; SHORE, HOWARD ; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN ; SPEECH ; MUSIC, FILM ; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN ; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER ; BURWELL, CARTER ; RABEN, PEER ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; CAREFUL (CN, Guy Maddin, 1992) ; VOICES ; VOYEURISM AND THE CINEMA ; WELLES, ORSON ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; SYNCHRONIZATION Notes: Includes indexISBN: 187635108XLON: 20110282Contents: Part 1: Issues in film scores and sound design -- Composing with a very wide palette: Howard Shore in conversation -- Music for the films of Joel and Ethan Coen: Carter Burwell in conversation -- From analogue to digital: Yasunori Honda in conversation ; Part 2: Sensations of voice and speech -- I scream in silence: cinema, sex and the sound of women dying -- Eavesdropping: an aural analogue of voyeurism? / Elisabeth Wies -- Genre talk / Sarah Kozloff -- Threads of voice / Adrian Martin ; Part 3: Excursions in music and modernism -- Reelin' in the years: cinematic documentation of American vernacular music / David Sanjek -- The legacy of modernism: Peer Raben, film music and political aftershock / Caryl Flinn -- Sound music in the films of Alain Robbe-Grillet / Royal S Brown -- Part 4: Histories of song and sound -- Ornament, Entrance and the theme song / Will Straw -- The raw and the coded: sound conventions and the transition of talkies / Alan Williams -- Nickelodeons and popular song / Rick Altman
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Domitor witnesses the first complete public presentation of the 'Dickson experimental sound film' in the 20th century in Film History (1999) vol.11 iss.4 p.400-403
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The emergence of film art : the evolution and development of the motion picture as an art, from 1900 to the present New York: Hopkinson and Blake, [c1969].
Call No: 70 JACAuthor: Jacobs, Lewis, comp Place: New YorkPublisher: Hopkinson and BlakePubDate: [c1969]PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; COLORIZATION ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; GERMANY ; ANIMATED FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; AUTEUR THEORY ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NEOREALISM ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; MELIES, GEORGES ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; CLAIR, RENE ; FORD, JOHN ; PORTER, EDWIN S. ; LESTER, RICHARD ; DISNEY, WALT ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; KAEL, PAULINE ; KUROSAWA AKIRA ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; BASS, SAUL ; MEKAS, JONAS ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928) Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439LON: 5011ID2: 291
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Film : an international history of the medium / by Robert Sklar London: Thames & Hudson, 1993.
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The film and the public / Roger Manvell Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1955.
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Film history : an introduction / Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.
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Going to the pictures : Scottish memories of cinema : with bonnie Scotland: on the big screen / Andrew Martin Edinburgh: NMS Publishing Limited, Royal Museum, 2000.
Call No: 71(411) MARAuthor: Martin, Andrew CorpAuthor: NMS Publishing Limited; Royal MuseumSource: UKPlace: EdinburghPublisher: NMS Publishing Limited; Royal MuseumPubDate: 2000PhysDes: viii, 134 p. : ill. ; 20 cmSeries: Scotland's Past in ActionSubject: SCOTLAND ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SCOTLAND ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND ; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION. SCOTLAND ; ORAL HISTORIES ; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA. SCOTLAND ; CINEMAS. SCOTLAND ; EXHIBITION. SCOTLAND ; EXHIBITION OF SILENT FILMS. SCOTLAND ; MEMORABILIA ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; EALING STUDIOS ; BRIGADOON (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1954) Summary: "Take your seat ... sit back and relax ... as we whisk you back to the days of art deco palaces and local fleapits. To celebrate the 20th century's most popular art form, we feature the voices of cinema-goers from all over Scotland as they recollect the Silent days, the novelty of Talkies, secretive courting in the balconies, noisy children at matinees - and through it all, the sheer glamour of the Stars. We take you from Holyrood to Hollywood, starring Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper and Betty Grable, and Odeons and Regals the length and breadth of Scotland." (Taken from back cover)Notes: Includes filmography, further readingISBN: 1901663442
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The image of librarians in cinema 1917-1999 Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2005.
Call No: 757-0 TEVAuthor: Ray Tevis & Brenda Tevis Place: Jefferson, North Carolina, and LondonPublisher: McFarland & Company Inc.PubDate: 2005PhysDes: 25 cm ; 230 pp.Subject: CAREERS IN FILMS ; TYPE CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Summary: The onscreen image of the librarian has changed little through the century. A silent 1921 film set the precedent for two female librarian characters: a dowdy spinster wears glasses and a bun hairstyle, and an attractive young woman is overworked and underpaid. Silent films did, however, give a variety of characteristics to librarians, showing them at work on many different tasks, and featuring them in a range of dramatic, romantic, and comedic situations. The sound era (during which librarians appeared in more than 200 films) frequently exaggerated these characteristics and situations, strongly influencing the general image of librarians. This monograph (with filmographies at the back) analyzes the stereotypical image of librarians, male and female, in primarily American and British motion pictures from 1917 through 1999. The work briefly describes each film, offers critical commentary, and then examines its librarian character, from socioeconomic conditions and motivations to personal attributes (clothing, hair, age) and romantic entanglements to common props and plots. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 0786421509
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Introduction in Film History (1999) vol.11 iss.4 p.395-399
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Joe Batten's Book. The story of sound recording London : Rockliff, 1956:
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Making pictures : a century of European cinematography / created by IMAGO, the Federation of European Cinematography London: Aurum, 2003.
Call No: 633.3(4) MAKAuthor: Michael Leitch (ed.) CorpAuthor: ImagoSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: AurumPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 481 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmSubject: CINEMATOGRAPHY ; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; NEOREALISM ; ITALY ; FRANCE ; GERMANY ; HUNGARY ; CZECHOSLOVAKIA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's ; NOUVELLE VAGUE ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; NYKVIST, SVEN ; ROTUNNO, GIUSEPPE ; CARDIFF, JACK ; BERTOLUCCI, BERNARDO ; MASTROIANNI, MARCELLO ; TOVOLI, LUCIANO Summary: Making Pictures is the first book systematically to examine and document the technical and creative role of the cinematographer in European cinema over the past 100 years. Individual contributions cover a wide range of themes, periods and genres and combine to provide a thorough and authoritative treatment of the subject. At the heart of the book is a section containing a film-by-film analysis of the 100 European films which, according to a jury of contemporary cinematographers, represent the very best examples of their art and demonstrate technical or creative mastery on the part of the cinematographer concerned. [Taken from inside cover]Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.ISBN: 1854108891Language: EnglishContents: "Coming from afar" is written by Luciano Tovoli. Chapter:"The cinematographers' view" is written by Jack Cardiff, Sven Nykist & Giuseppe Rotunno. Chapter: "The director and the cinematographer" is written by Bernado Bertolucci. Chapter: "The actor's view" is written by Marcello Mastroianni. Other chapter contributions made by Michael Leitch, Cathy Greenhalgh, Zoe Bicat & Barry Salt
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Okay for sound : how the screen found its voice / edited by Frederic Thrasher New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1946].
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The Oxford history of world cinema / edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Call No: 70 OXF REFAuthor: Nowell Smith, Geoffrey Place: Oxford New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xxii, 824 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-784) and indexISBN: 0198112572 (alk. paper) : ¦25.00LON: 94036359; 11212940URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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The parade's gone by ... / Kevin Brownlow Berkeley: University of California Press, c1968.
Call No: 70"01" BROAuthor: Brownlow, Kevin Place: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: c1968PhysDes: 577 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; PICKFORD, MARY ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; DWAN, ALLAN ; BROWN, CLARENCE ; WELLMAN, WILLIAM ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; MELODRAMA ; BOOTH, MARGARET ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; MAYER, LOUIS B. ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; Keaton, Buster ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GANCE, ABEL ; ROSHER, CHARLES G. ; BLYTHE, BETTY ; THALBERG, IRVING ; DENNY, REGINALD ; HORNBECK, WILLIAM ; FARRAR, GERALDINE ; KING, HENRY ; SLOMAN, EDWARD ; LLOYD, HAROLD ; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925) ; ROBIN HOOD (US, Allan Dwan, 1922) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0520030680 : $9.95LON: 740138 740138
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A pictorial history of the talkies / by Daniel Blum Feltham: Spring Books, 1968.
Call No: FOLIO; 70"1" BLUAuthor: Blum, Daniel ; Kobal, John Edition: Revised ed.; revised by John KobalPlace: FelthamPublisher: Spring BooksPubDate: 1968PhysDes: 351 p. of illus., ports., [12] p. 32 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ISBN: 0600031012LON: 356401 356401
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Railways in the cinema / John Huntley London: Ian Allan, 1969.
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The shattered silents : how the talkies came to stay / Alexander Walker London: Elm Tree Books, 1978.
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A short history of the movies / Gerald Mast Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1976.
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Sound and the cinema : the coming of sound to American film / edited by Evan William Cameron, assisted by William F. Wilbert & Joan Evans-Cameron Pleasantville, N.Y.: Redgrave Pub. Co., c1980.
Call No: 70"1" SOUAuthor: Cameron, Evan ; Wilbert, William F ; Evans-Cameron, Joan Place: Pleasantville, N.Y.Publisher: Redgrave Pub. Co.PubDate: c1980PhysDes: xvi, 232 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD Notes: Consists largely of proceedings of a symposium held at the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, N.Y., 1973; Includes index; Bibliography: p. [220]-223ISBN: 091317856X (pbk.)LON: 1843234
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"The musical is back" in Lumina (Winter 2009) iss.1 p.92-100
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Walter Forde / edited by Geoff Brown London: British Film Institute, 1977.
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A world of movies : 70 years of film history / by Richard Lawton ; with captions by Hugo Leckey ; and an introduction by Ella Smith London : New York: Sundial, 1974.
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