Designing Sound : : Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema /

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

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 m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Beck, Jay,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Techniques of the Moving Image
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.) :; 25 photographs
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Table of 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

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