Contents

Part 1. History, Technology, and Aesthetics

Introduction

The Coming of Sound: Technological Change in the American Film Industry, by Douglas Gomery

Economic Struggle and Hollywood Imperialism: Europe Converts to Sound, by Douglas Gomery

Film Style and Technology in the Thirties: Sound, by Barry Salt

The Evolution of Sound Technology, by Rick Altman

Ideology and the Practice of Sound Editing and Mixing, by Mary Ann Doane

Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound, by John Belton

Part II: Theory

Section 1: Classical Sound Theory

A Statement, by S. M. Eisenstein, V. I. Pudovkin, and G. V. Alexandrov

Asynchronism as a Principle of Sound Film, by V. I. Pudovkin

The Art of Sound, by René Clair

Manifesto: Dialogue on Sound, by Basil Wright and B. Vivian Braun

Sound in Films, by Alberto Cavalcanti

A New Laocoön: Artistic Composites and the Talking Film, by Rudolph Arnheim

Theory of Film: Sound, by Bela Balazs

Dialogue and Sound, by Siegfried Kracauer

Slow-Motion Sound, by Jean Epstein

Section 2: Modern Sound Theory

Notes on Sound, by Robert Bresson

Direct Sound: An Interview with, by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Aural Objects, by Christian Metz

The Voice in the Cinema: The Articulation of Body and Space, by Mary Ann Doane

Part III: Practice

Section I: Practice and Methodology

Fundamental Aesthetics of Sound in the Cinema, by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson

On the Structural Use of Sound, by Noël Burch

Section 2: Pioneers

The Movies Learn to Talk: Ernst Lubitsch, René Clair, and Rouben Mamoulian, by Arthur Knight

American Sound Films, 1926-1930,, by Ron Mottram

Applause: The Visual and Acoustic Landscape, by Lucy Fischer

Enthusiasm: From Kino-Eye to Radio Eye, by Lucy Fischer

Lang and Pabst: Paradigms for Early Sound Practice, by Noël Carroll

The Voice of Silence: Sound Style in John Stahl's Back Street, by Martin Rubin

Section 3: Stylists

Orson Welle's Use of Sound, by Penny Mintz

The Evolution of Hitchcock's Aural Style and Sound in The Birds, by Elisabeth Weis

The Sound Track of The Rules of the Game, by Michael Litle

Sound in Bresson's Mouchette, by Lindley Hanlon

Godard's Use of Sound, by Alan Williams

Section 4: Contemporary Innovators

Altman, Dolby, and the Second Sound Revolution, by Charles Schreger

Sound Mixing and Apocalypse Now: An Interview with Walter Murch, by Frank Paine

The Sound Designer, by Marc Mancini

Sound and Silence in Narrative and Nonnarrative Cinema, by Fred Camper