Bibliograph

Electric sounds, technological change and the rise of corporate mass media, Steve J. Wurtzler

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Electric sounds, technological change and the rise of corporate mass media, Steve J. Wurtzler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Electric sounds

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Steve J. Wurtzler

Series statement

Film and Culture Series

Sub title

technological change and the rise of corporate mass media

Summary

Focuses on the innovations in the electronic production and transmission of sound in the 1920s and '30s and their explosive impact on the American mass media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema

Table Of Contents

Technological innovation and the consolidation of corporate power -- Announcing technological change -- From performing the recorded to dissimulating the machine -- Making sound media meaningful: commerce, culture, politics -- Transcription versus signification: competing paradigms for representing with sound -- Conclusions/reverberations

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