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Cinesonic: The World of Sound in Film
- Author
- Philip Brophy (Edited by)
- Year
- 1999
- ISBN
- 187635108X
If you were blind, the cinema would be a world of sound.
A malfunctioning nickelodeon and a live pianist. The voice of Al Jolson optically squiggling on a strip of celluloid. The drawl of a cowboy and the banter of a gangster. Crazy pop
songs from fifties animated credit sequences. Smashing glass in the sonorium of Alain Robbe Grillet. The blues and how it sounds in documentaries. The undying refrains of Lili Marlene
in Rainer Fassbinder’s head. The breath of women who can no longer scream on the silver screen. Al Pacino’s polyethnic destruction of the English language. The inner world of the
acoustic voyeur. The fluid style of Carter Burwell. The riveting tonalities of Howard Shore. The hypersonic detonations of Yasunori Honda.
If you have ears, you will find this collection of articles and interviews fascinating.
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