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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2014

265 Pages

ISBN 978-1-349-48905-3

Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture

The sounds of silent films

new perspectives on history, theory and practice

Edited by

Claus Tieber, Anna K Windisch

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1057/9781137410726

Full citation:

Tieber, C. , Windisch, A.K. (eds) (2014). The sounds of silent films: new perspectives on history, theory and practice, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Tieber Claus; Windisch Anna K

1-9

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Organizing a music library for playing to pictures

Brown Julie

13-35

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The formation of a Swedish cinema music practice, 1905–1915

Natzén Christopher

36-48

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The use of cue sheets in Italian silent cinema

Targa Marco

49-65

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Music, singing and stage practice in the cinemas of upper Silesia during the 1920s

Biel Urszula

66-83

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The sound of music in Vienna's cinemas, 1910–1930

Tieber Claus; Windisch Anna K

84-102

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The moving picture world, W. Stephen Bush and the American reception of European cinema practices, 1907–1913

Buhler James; Watts Catrin

103-122

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Musical beginnings and trends in 1920s Indian cinema

Bhatt Olympia

123-138

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Deconstructing the "brutal savage" in John Ford's The iron horse

Graff Peter A.

141-155

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"The hermeneutic framing of film illustration practice"

Fuchs Maria

156-171

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Sergei Eisenstein and the music of landscape

Finocchiaro Francesco

172-191

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Paradoxes of autonomy

Saxer Marion

192-207

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The tradition of novelty — comparative studies of silent film scores

Bellano Marco

208-220

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Germaine Dulac's La souriante madame Beudet (1923) and the film scores by Arthur Kleiner and Manfred Knaak

Stenzl Jürg

221-250

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