Hollywood sound design and Moviesound Newsletter : a case study of the end of the analog age / David E. Stone with Vanessa Theme Ament.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, David E., 1947- author.

Series:

A Focal Press Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Sound effects.

Motion pictures.

Sound motion pictures--History.

Sound motion pictures.

Sound--Recording and reproducing--History.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Place of Publication:

New York : Taylor & Francis, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

As film students and younger fans experience "Big Hollywood Sound" in Imax presentations and digital theaters, many are also discovering action and adventure movies made well before they were born. There is a legacy to be enjoyed in the sound of these films: Blockbuster movies of the 80's, and 90's are notable for the extraordinarily dramatic impact of their sound mixing, and the way in which it could immerse audiences in a surrounding space. During this period, a small group of sound professionals in Hollywood wrote and published a critical journal about the craftsmanship, new technology, and changing aesthetics that excited conversation in their community. Their work has been edited and compiled here for the first time. David Stone is a sound editor, a veteran of roughly 100 Hollywood feature films, such as Gremlins, Top Gun, Die Hard, Speed, and Ocean's 11. He was a Supervising Sound Editor for projects as varied as Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Batman Returns, City Slickers 2, and Dolores Claiborne. He has collected Golden Reel awards for Best Sound Editing five times, and won the 1992 Academy Award for best Sound Effects Editing, for his supervising work on Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 2015, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival in California. Stone is now a Professor and former Chair of Sound Design at Savannah College of Art and Design. Between 1989 and 1994, he was the editor of Moviesound Newsletter, which was published by Vanessa Ament. Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament is the author of The Foley Grail, and a contributor to Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects (the Silver Screen Series). She is on the steering committee for Cinesonika, an international film festival and conference. A veteran Foley artist, sound editor, and voice actor from Los Angeles, she also writes and sings jazz, and is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity, and the Editors Guild. She worked on Die Hard, sex, lies, and videotape, Platoon, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Noises Off, and A Goofy Movie, and many other films. Dr. Ament received her Ph.D. in Communication, in the area of Moving Image Studies, from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and is presently the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair Professor of Telecommunications, at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Contents:

Short subjects (glossary, trivia, scoreboard)

Exhibitionists (the theater beat)

Sound reports (notices, news articles, and big news)

Rewinding (articles, historical)

Talking pictures (interviews)

Active listening (reviews at the movies)

Critical listening (reviews at home)

Sound thinking (thoughts and analysis)

Sturm and Drang (editorial and opinion)

Unsound thinking (humor)

Reader participation (bag of snail-mail)

Time and tide (concerns and obituaries).

Notes:

"A Focal Press Book"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781003074618

1003074618

9781000156041

1000156044

9781000112986

1000112985

9781317488064

1317488067

9781315710143

1315710145

9781317488057

1317488059

OCLC:

956521281