Introduction: Soundies Jukebox Films
Part I Small Screen Encounters and Spatial
Practices
1 The Look-Listening Machine: The Panoram Jukebox
and New Screen Practices
2 The Sites of Soundies: The Dynamics of Space
and Screen
3 Mobilizing Space: The Panoram goes to
War
Part II Short Forms and Enduring
Formations
4 Up Close and Personal: The Shifting Aesthetics
of the Jukebox Short
5 "A Swing Half Breed": Soundies' Hybrid
Identities and Raced Attractions
6 Post War Screens: Soundies on TV and the Rehash
of the Film Jukebox
Conclusion: Short and Sweet: Rescaling Screen Culture
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ANDREA J. KELLEY is an assistant professor of media studies at Auburn University School of Communication and Journalism in Alabama.
"[Kelley] admirably succeeds in describing the business methods,
aesthetic attributes and social history of the coin-operated
"Panoram" machine and its black-and-white 16mm musical shorts,
called Soundies."— CineMontage
"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub—
Chronicle of Higher Education
"A compelling read from beginning to end, Soundies Jukebox Films
and the Shift to Small Screen Culture opens up an entirely new way
to think about moving images, music and the technologies that made
them part of our everyday lives."— Haidee Wasson, coeditor of
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