French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780190635978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str.

Hannah Lewis

Opis

In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding French musical styles and genres shaped cinematic experiments during the transition to sound.

Recenzje

The great value of Professor Lewis' book lies in the clarity with which she teases out the strands of the aesthetic arguments and the fruits of filmmakers' efforts to bring them into being, and the elegance of her arguments about music's roles in these various approaches to sound film.

O autorze

Hannah Lewis, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas at Austin, is a historical musicologist who specializes in film music, music and visual media, early twentieth-century French music, and musical theater.