Designing Sound : Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema / Jay Beck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beck, Jay, author.

Series:

Techniques of the moving image.

Techniques of the Moving Image

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Sound motion pictures.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as a golden age for American film, as directors like Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese expanded the Hollywood model with aesthetically innovative works. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, those filmmakers were blessed with more than just visionary eyes; Designing Sound focuses on how those filmmakers also had keen ears that enabled them to perceive new possibilities for cinematic sound design. Offering detailed case studies of key films and filmmakers, Jay Beck explores how sound design was central to the era's experimentation with new modes of cinematic storytelling. He demonstrates how sound was key to many directors' signature aesthetics, from the overlapping dialogue that contributes to Robert Altman's naturalism to the wordless interludes at the heart of Terrence Malick's lyricism. Yet the book also examines sound design as a collaborative process, one where certain key directors ceded authority to sound technicians who offered significant creative input. Designing Sound provides readers with a fresh take on a much-studied era in American film, giving a new appreciation of how artistry emerged from a period of rapid industrial and technological change. Filled with rich behind-the-scenes details, the book vividly conveys how sound practices developed by 1970s filmmakers changed the course of American cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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's 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

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

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-6415-8

OCLC:

945447753