Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-274) and index.
Contents:
House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir -- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties 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 (a side) : siren city.
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