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Book SynopsisOffering 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.
Trade Review“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 *
"Jay Beck puts in perspective an influential turning point in cinema's storytelling with sound, examining how young directors of the 1970s working with monaural soundtracks took on new aesthetic challenges...a critically important historical work!" -- David Stone * Savannah College of Art and Design *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 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
