How Long to Read Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound

How Long Does it Take to Read Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 44 minutes to read Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound by Charles O’Brien

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An exploration of how the introduction of recorded music affected the production, viewing experience, and global export of movies. In Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound, Charles O’Brien examines American and European musical films created circa 1930, when the world’s sound-equipped theaters screened movies featuring recorded songs and filmmakers in the United States and Europe struggled to meet the artistic and technical challenges of sound production and distribution. The presence of singers in films exerted special pressures on film technique, lending a distinct look and sound to the films’ musical sequences. Rather than advancing a film’s plot, songs in these films were staged, filmed, and cut to facilitate the singer’s engagement with her or his public. Through an examination of the export market for sound films in the early 1930s, when German and American companies used musical films as a vehicle for competing to control the world film trade, this book delineates a new transnational context for understanding the Hollywood musical. Combining archival research with the cinemetric analysis of hundreds of American, German, French, and British films made between 1927 and 1934, O’Brien provides the historical context necessary for making sense of the aesthetic impact of changes in film technology from the past to the present. “Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound is an insightful study in the beginning of cinema’s sound era.” —popcultureshelf.com

How long is Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound?

Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound by Charles O’Brien is 218 pages long, and a total of 56,244 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 7 minutes to read Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound aloud.

What Reading Level is Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound?

Movies, Songs, and Electric Sound is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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