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Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema
Jay Beck
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Description for Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Techniques of the Moving Image
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813564135
SKU
V9780813564135
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About Jay Beck
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema
“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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more