Siren City : Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Miklitsch, Robert.
Imprint:Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (312 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Film noir -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Sound effects.
Motion picture music -- History and criticism.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Film noir.
Motion picture music.
Motion pictures -- Sound effects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125128
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ISBN:9780813553924
081355392X
0813548985
9780813548982
0813548993
9780813548999
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Siren City engagingly illustrates how sound tracks in 1940s film noir are often just as compelling as the genre's vaunted graphics. Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, it resonates with the sounds and source music of classic American noir-gunshots and sirens, swing riffs and canaries. Along with the proverbial private eye and femme fatale, these audiovisuals are central to the noir aesthetic and one important reason the genre reverberates with audiences around the world.
Other form:Print version: Miklitsch, Robert. Siren City : Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2011