Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lowkey, David Bordwell, Vladimir Lenin
31 Mar 2014
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Singin" in the rain (donen and kelly, 1952) Battleship potemkin (sergei eisenstein 1925): soviet montage, the use of pictures. Atanarjuat/the fast runner (zacharias kunuk, 2001: history of sound technology in the cinema. Tradition of melodrama: most relevant use of sound in early cinema. Literally mean music drama combined spoken text with music. Became increasingly popular in 19 century and dominated american stage. Edison"s phonograph introduced, impacted public first recorded sound. Sound experiment (1895) plays violin into megaphone as two others dance. Silent drama used to distinguish film from stage drama using spoken language. Musicals soon displaced many silent screen"s most beloved stars. Relationship of cinema to radio, theatre and vaudeville. 1930 silent films no longer being produced other than individual filmmakers such as cahrlie. Late 1950"s -stereophonic sound, 1970"s- dolby and surround sound, 1990"s-digital sound correspond with historical shifts in films social role tv home vid. and comp. Digital sound attract audiences today to theatrical exhibition.
