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The Coming of Sound

The Coming of Sound

Hardcover

Business GeneralFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 041596900X
ISBN13: 9780415969000
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2004
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
The coming of sound to film was an event whose importance can hardly be overestimated; sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry but all of world cinema as well. As economic and film historian Douglas Gomery explains, the business of film became not only bigger but much more complex. As sound spread its power, the talkies became an agent of economic and social change through the globe, extending America's reach in ways that had never before been imaginable.

This is an essential work for anyone interested in early film, film history and economics, and the history of the American media.

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