Sound in feature films without speech

The main goal of this thesis is to describe the unofficial genre of films without speech and to analyze principles of the use of sound and film language in such films. Initial chapters speak generally about the phenomenon of feature nonverbal cinema with the focus on its historical development and general film language. The middle part presents, and briefly describes chosen films without speech, and suggests their sorting into sub-genres. The last, vastest part of the work, is an analytic study of various approaches to reduce speech generally throughout film. This part leads into the final theoretical description of soundtrack in films without speech