Jay Beck

Designing Sound

Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering detailed case studies of key films and filmmakers, Jay Beck explores how sound design was central to the 1960s and 1970s era of experimentation with new modes of cinematic storytelling. He demonstrates how sound was key to many directors' signature aesthetics. Yet the book also examines sound design as a collaborative process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780813564135
• ISBN-10: 0813564131
• Artikelnr.: 44217417

Autorenporträt

Beck, Jay

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1     Introduction: The State of the Art
Part One     General Trends (1965–1971)
2     The British Invasion
3     TV and Documentary’s Influence on Sound Aesthetics
4     New Voices and Personal Sound Aesthetics, 1970–1971
Part Two    Director Case Studies (1968–1976)
5     Francis Ford Coppola: American Zoetrope and Collective Filmmaking
6     Robert Altman’s Collaborative Sound Work
7     Martin Scorsese’s Dialectical Sound
Part Three  The Dolby Stereo Era (1975–1980)
8    The Sound of Music: Dolby Stereo and Music in the New American Cinema
9    The Sound of Spectacle: Dolby Stereo and the New Classicism
10   The Sound of Storytelling: Dolby Stereo and the Art of Sound Design
Notes
Bibliography
Index