French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780190635985 / Angielski / Miękka / 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

Lewis's compelling book captures the excitement and trepidation with which filmmakers, composer, and critics greeted the arrival of synchronized sound film in France, correcting the film music scholarship that conflates Hollywood's transition to synchronized sound film with Europe's.

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.