MICHAEL SLOWIK - After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 (Film and Culture Series)

NY: Columbia University Press, 2014. 1st. Soft cover. 8vo. First edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Columbia University Press, 2014, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xi+384pp, illustrated. Slowik follows filmmakers\' shifting combinations of sound and image, recapturing the volatility of this era and the variety of film music strategies that were tested, abandoned, and kept. He explores early film music experiments and accompaniment practices in opera, melodrama, musicals, radio, and silent films and discusses the impact of the advent of synchronized dialogue. He concludes with a reassessment of King Kong and its groundbreaking approach to film music, challenging the film\'s place and importance in the timeline of sound achievement. As new.. As New .

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