TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lastra,James
TI  - Sound technology and the American cinema : : perception, representation, modernity 
SN  - 9780231115179 (paper : alk. paper)
AV  - PN 1995.7 L349s 2000
U1  - 791.43/09 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Sound motion pictures
KW  - History
KW  - Sound
KW  - Recording and reproducing
KW  - Cine sonoro
KW  - Historia
KW  - Sonido
KW  - Grabación y reproducción
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-263) and index; 1. Inscriptions and Simulations: The Imagination of Technology 2. Performance, Inscription, Diegesis: The Technological Transformation of Representational Causality 3. Everything But the Kitchen Sync: Sound and Image Before the Talkies 4. Sound Theory 5. Standards and Practices: Aesthetic Norm and Technological Innovation in the American Cinema 6. Sound Space and Classical Narrative
N2  - Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. James Lastra argues that these technologies allow us to track the links between capital, science, and cultural practices
ER  -