Siren City
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1940s
1940s film noir
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audio technologies
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black jazzwomen
bluesmen
canaries
canary
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classical instrumental source music
dictaphones
early rko noir
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femme fatale
film noir
film sound
films
forties noir
gunshot
gunshots
Hollywood
house sound
intercoms
jukeboxes
music
music of classic American noir
noir aesthetic
offscreen sound
phonographs
popular instrumental source music
private eye
radios
reverb
ROBERT MIKLITSCH
singing detectives
siren
Siren City
sirens
sonic effects
Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir
sound track
sound tracks
sounds
swig riff
swing riffs
telephones
torch singers
voice-over narration
Product details
- ISBN 9780813548999
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2011
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hailed for its dramatic expressionist visuals, film noir is one of the most prominent genres in Hollywood cinema. Yet, despite the "boom" in sound studies, the role of sonic effects and source music in classic American noir has not received the attention it deserves. 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, Robert Miklitsch mobilizes the notion of audiovisuality to investigate period sound technologies such as the radio and jukebox, phonograph and Dictaphone, popular American music such as "hot" black jazz, and "big numbers" featuring iconic performers such as Lauren Bacall, Veronica Lake, and Rita Hayworth. Siren City 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.
Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, Robert Miklitsch mobilizes the notion of audiovisuality to investigate period sound technologies such as the radio and jukebox, phonograph and Dictaphone, popular American music such as "hot" black jazz, and "big numbers" featuring iconic performers such as Lauren Bacall, Veronica Lake, and Rita Hayworth. Siren City 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.
ROBERT MIKLITSCH is a professor in the English department at Ohio University where he teaches film and media studies. He is the editor of Psycho-Marxism and the author of From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism" and Roll Over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media.
