319
shorts, 96
experiments with, 169 –70, 175;
Show Boat, 239
stars and, 88; studio system and,
Sidney, George, 239
137 –38, 142; widescreen cinema
Sierck, Detlef. See Sirk, Douglas
and, 253. See also dialogue; music; Silberman, Marc, 78
voices
silent films, 25, 28 –31, 41, 65, 140,
sound effects, 55, 168, 169
169, 178, 236; expressionist, 199;
Sous les toits de Paris, 56
foreign stars in, 144; integration of
special effects, 52, 55–56, 184, 188 – 89
aesthetics of, 56 –57; music for, 147;
spectatorship, 3, 5, 16, 18, 56 –58, 95,
pre-1910 international style of, 251;
231, 243, 260; film noir and, 172,
westerns, 132
176, 184 – 88; hegemonizing, 46 –
Silver, Alain, 174, 175
49; in postwar Germany, 196, 228,
Silverman, Kaja, 182, 183, 188
229; sound and, 28, 31, 32, 51, 223,
Singing Fool, The, 11, 26, 27, 276n11
225; stars and, 76 –77, 79 – 80, 83,
Singin’ in the Rain, 239
86, 88, 91–92, 98; widescreen cin-
Siodmak, Curt, 282n22, 286n27
ema and, 236, 249, 251–52
Siodmak, Robert, 30, 155, 157 –59,
Spiral Staircase, The, 167, 184 –97, 160, 161, 201, 233, 239 – 40, 264, 191, 193, 195, 199
297n14; film noir of, 13 –15, 14,
Staal, Victor, 80
18, 159, 166 – 80, 171, 184 –92, 191, Stagecoach, 132
194 –97, 243, 297n18; in West Ger-
Stanwyck, Barbara, 240
many during 1950s, 197 –200, 228,
