RIS ID
8155
Abstract
Sound technology and the American cinema makes an exciting contribution to the fields of film history, film theory, and cultural studies. It offers an in-depth, multi-sourced study of the development of representational technologies, including photography, phonography, and the cinema; each had a convergent role in the permanent adoption of sound into the Hollywood film industry. James Lastra intrigues the reader by constructing a technological genealogy, which connects the ideas and sensibilities of an American culture on the brink of modernity. In doing so, he brings to life a material history of this century's "most influential audiovisual form-the classical Hollywood sound film" (9).
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Publication Details
Yecies, B, Book review of: Sound technology and the American cinema, Screening The Past: An International, Refereed, Electronic Journal of Visual Media and History, 14, 2002.