Bordwell and Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction, sound chapter TOC
File created 20 October 2009.
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction. Seventh edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Detailed table of contents for Chapter 9, with films mentioned in each section. A version of this can be downloaded as a Word file from this page: Go to Supporting Materials. The link is near the bottom of that page.
NB: Be aware that the table of contents for this chapter was fairly consistent through the 7th edition but changed in some significant respects (especially near the beginning) in the 8th edition (2006). The ninth edition will be published shortly.
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Chapter 9: Sound in the Cinema
The Powers of Sound
Fundamentals of Film Sound
Perceptual Properties
Loudness
Pitch
How Green Was my Valley
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Safe
Timbre
Witness
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Wizard of OZ
Citizen Kane
The Thin Red Line
Cast Away
Selection, Alteration, and Combination
Choosing and Manipulating Sounds
[Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons]
City Lights
Modern Times
A Man Escaped
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
The Exorcist
Jurassic Park
American Graffiti
Sound Mixing
Jurassic Park
The English Patient
The Godfather
A Dramatic Sound Stream: Seven Samurai
Sound and Film Form
Local Hero
Raising Arizona
Jules and Jim
Dimensions of Film Sound
Rhythm in Sound and Image: Coordination
[Mickey Mouse cartoons]
Rhythm in Sound and Image: Disparities
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Four Nights of a Dreamer
Play Time
La Jet´e
Alexander Nevsky
[Box: Rhythm on Two Tracks: A Dance of Death in The Last of the Mohicans]
Fidelity
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Le Million
Duck Amuck [cartoon]
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Possessed
Space
Diegetic versus Nondiegetic Sound
North by Northwest
The Magnificent Ambersons
Le Million
A Movie
Scorpio Rising
War Requiem
Resources of Diegetic Sound
His Girl Friday
Stagecoach
Hamlet [Olivier]
Dune
Wings of Desire
Playing with the Diegetic/Nondiegetic Distinction
Blazing Saddles
Little Shop of Horrors
The Magnificent Ambersons
Apocalypse Now
Magnolia
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Sound and Perspective
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Naked Gun
Hotshots
The Fugitive
Lawrence of Arabia
Star Wars
Apocalypse Now
Time
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Diegetic Sound
The Sixth Sense
The Silence of the Lambs
The River's Edge
How Green Was my Valley
American Friend
Band of Outsiders
Contempt
Nondiegetic Sound
The Magnificent Ambersons
Providence
The Conversation
Functions of Film Sound: A Man Escaped
Fontaine's Commentary
Sound Effects and Narration
Sound Motifs
Music
A Sample Sequence
Summary
Notes and Queries
Compilation by David Neumeyer 2009.
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