Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema

Author:   Jay Beck
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9780813564135


Pages:   274
Publication Date:   07 April 2016
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Author:   Jay Beck
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9780813564135


ISBN 10:   0813564131
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   07 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
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Acknowledgments1     Introduction: The State of the ArtPart One     General Trends (1965–1971)2     The British Invasion3     TV and Documentary’s Influence on Sound Aesthetics4     New Voices and Personal Sound Aesthetics, 1970–1971Part Two    Director Case Studies (1968–1976)5     Francis Ford Coppola: American Zoetrope and Collective Filmmaking6     Robert Altman’s Collaborative Sound Work7     Martin Scorsese’s Dialectical SoundPart Three  The Dolby Stereo Era (1975–1980)8    The Sound of Music: Dolby Stereo and Music in the New American Cinema9    The Sound of Spectacle: Dolby Stereo and the New Classicism10   The Sound of Storytelling: Dolby Stereo and the Art of Sound DesignNotesBibliographyIndex

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"“Presenting strong, original research, Designing Sound examines a period of remarkable and often overlooked experimentation with sound in American cinema during the 1960s and 1970s."" -- Steve J. Wurtzler * author of Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media *"


-Presenting strong, original research, Designing Sound examines a period of remarkable and often overlooked experimentation with sound in American cinema during the 1960s and 1970s.---Steve J. Wurtzler -author of Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media -


Presenting strong, original research, Designing Sound examines a period of remarkable and often overlooked experimentation with sound in American cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. --Steve J. Wurtzler author of Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass M


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JAY BECK is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. In addition to co-founding the Sound Studies Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, he is the American coeditor of the journal Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. He has also coedited Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound. 

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