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"Weighty and ambitious....This thoroughly researched and copiously illustrated book is recommended for large libraries and all cinema collections." -- Library Journal
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"Silent Film Sound is a top pick for any serious college-level film library."
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"Altman radically rewrites the history of sound practices in silent cinema in the United States. He boldly challenges the basic assumptions of earlier work and carefully develops a series of cogent arguments about the complexity and swiftly changing nature of American silent cinema in which sound often had an importance equal to that of the moving image. The arguments are based on extensive, meticulous research in primary sources, many of them examined for the first time. This book is simply an extraordinary achievement." -- Richard Abel, University of Michigan
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