Divergent Tracks - How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound

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.Vanessa Ament, author of The Foley Grail (2009), rather than defining the 1990s as an era of technological determinism-a superficial reading-it is best understood as one in which sound professionals became more viable as artists, collaborated in sound design authorship, and influenced this digital transition to better accommodate their needs and desires in their work.>

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• Authors: Dr. Vanessa Theme (Edmund F. And Virginia B Ament, Dr. Vanessa Theme (Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair of Telecommunications Ament, Vanessa Theme Ament, Vanessa Theme (Edmund F. And Virginia B. Ba Ament, Vanessa Theme (Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair of Telecommunications Ament, AMENT VANESSA THEME
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781501359224
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-5922-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Filmproduktion: Produktionstechniken, Akustik und Tontechnik, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Acoustics & Sound, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film production: technical & background skills, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills