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Dr Brian Yecies

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Book Review Of: Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon In World Culture, Brian M. Yecies Nov 2011

Book Review Of: Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon In World Culture, Brian M. Yecies

Dr Brian Yecies

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of: Sound Technology And The American Cinema, Brian M. Yecies Nov 2011

Book Review Of: Sound Technology And The American Cinema, Brian M. Yecies

Dr Brian Yecies

Sound technology and the American cinema makes an exciting contribution to the fields of film history, film theory, and cultural studies. It offers an in-depth, multi-sourced study of the development of representational technologies, including photography, phonography, and the cinema; each had a convergent role in the permanent adoption of sound into the Hollywood film industry. James Lastra intrigues the reader by constructing a technological genealogy, which connects the ideas and sensibilities of an American culture on the brink of modernity. In doing so, he brings to life a material history of this century's "most influential audiovisual form-the classical Hollywood sound …


Book Review Of: Newmedia.Com.Au, Brian M. Yecies Nov 2011

Book Review Of: Newmedia.Com.Au, Brian M. Yecies

Dr Brian Yecies

No abstract provided.