Siren city : sound and source music in classic American noir /

Siren city : sound and source music in classic American noir /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Description:	xxii, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Film noir -- History and criticism. Motion pictures -- Sound effects. Motion picture music -- History and criticism. Film noir. Motion picture music. Motion pictures -- Sound effects. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8369782

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ISBN:	9780813548982 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813548985 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813548999 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0813548993 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir
Sonic effects : sound and fury in 40s noir
Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes
Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music
Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers
The big number (side b) : killing them softly
The big number (side a) : siren city.