Divergent Tracks
How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound
$278.08
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2021
Summary
By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films—Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)—it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant transition from analogue to digital. However, their cultural and structural labor differences governed different results.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501359224 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1501359223 |
| Author: | Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic USA |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 472g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
Divergent Tracks reveals a first-hand account of the behind-the-scene world of postproduction film sound in the 1990s, a key moment when industry professionals grappled with the disruptive transition from analogue to digital technologies. In her masterful account, Dr. Ament rigorously details how three geographically distinct film communities each made critical contributions to the development of digital film sound and how their innovative practices changed the way we listen to the movies. I anticipate that Dr. Ament’s book will change how we also regard the role of sound designers and their post-production teams by helping us all better recognize their major contributions to the craft of moviemaking as creative professionals in their own right. * Richard Lawrence Edwards, Director for the Center for Teaching & Learning, University of California, Riverside, USA *
About The Author
Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament
VANESSA THEME AMENT is the former Endowed Chair of Telecommunications at Ball State University, USA. She has worked as a Foley artist on such films as Die Hard, and produced the documentary Amplified: A Conversation with Women in American Film Sound, and is the author of The Foley Grail (3rd edition, 2021)
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