Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1   The Silent Screen, 1894–1927 Chapter 2   Classical Hollywood, 1928–1946 Chapter 3   Postwar Hollywood, 1947–1967 Chapter 4   The Auteur Renaissance, 1968–1980 Chapter 5   The New Hollywood, 1981–1999 Chapter 6   The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000–present Academy Awards for Sound
 Academy Awards for Music
 Notes
 Glossary
 Selected Bibliography
 Notes on Contributors
 Index 

About the Author

KATHRYN KALINAK is the author of Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film. In 2011, she was named Mary Tucker Thorp Professor at Rhode Island College.

Reviews

"Thoroughly researched and revelatory, this book is an essential resource for sound and cinema studies. Again and again, the contributors to this excellent volume showed me how much I still have to learn about cinema sound."
*author of Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema*

"A complete history of the use and development of sound in movies from silent films until today. Interesting reading for professionals and also for anyone interested in moviemaking."
*re-recording mixer, CAS*

"One could easily structure an entire course around this volume … The detail in this book makes it a crucial resource for film studies."
*CHOICE*