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Zusatztext Sergi’s scholarly insights and Rydstrom’s unique love and professional knowledge of sound (along with his wonderfully dry sense of humor) create a truly unusual and rich take on the history of the film industry - while at the same time, giving us an eccentric perspective on world historical events that laid the rollercoaster tracks for Hollywood’s ups and downs. Film and history buffs alike will enjoy the read! Informationen zum Autor Gianluca Sergi is Professor of Film and Television at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of The Dolby Era: Film Sound in Contemporary Hollywood (2004). At Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Sound, Gary Rydstrom has sound designed and mixed many films, including Terminator 2 , Jurassic Park , A River Runs Through It , Toy Story , Quiz Show , Titanic , Saving Private Ryan , Punch-Drunk Love , Finding Nemo , and Ready Player One . He has won seven Academy Awards for Sound and Sound Editing, and Career Achievement Awards from both the Cinema Audio Society and Motion Picture Sound Editors. For Pixar Animation Studios, he directed two shorts, the Oscar-nominated Lifted , and Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation . In 2015, he directed the animated feature Strange Magic for Disney/Lucasfilm. Gary is a native of Chicago, and a graduate of the School of Cinema at the University of Southern California. Vorwort Offers a set of examples of how a more systematic approach to industry challenges in Hollywood can help generate effective ways to address them successfully. Zusammenfassung Film is dead! Three little words that have been heard around the world many times over the life of the cinema. Yet, some 120 years on, the old dog’s ability to come up with new tricks and live another day remains as surprising and effective as ever. This book is an exploration of film’s ability to escape its own ‘The End’ title card. It charts the history of cinema’s development through a series of crises that could, should, ought to have ‘ended’ it. From its origins to Covid - via a series of unlikely friendships with sound, television and the internet - the book provides industry professionals, scholars and lovers of cinema with an informing and intriguing journey into the afterlife of cinema and back to the land of the living. It is also a rare collaboration between an Oscar-winning filmmaker and a film scholar, a chronicle of their attempt to bridge two worlds that have often looked at each other with as much curiosity as doubt, but that are bound by the deep love of cinema that they both share. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction1. Introducing: The Film Industry2. The Motion Picture Patents Company: The Crisis of Control3. The Big Bang: The Crisis of Sound4. No Place Like Home: The Crisis of Television5. When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend: The Crisis of Perception (Old Hollywood and Rise of New Hollywood)6. Hollywood and Millennials: The Crisis of Method 7. The Value of Film in the Age of Content Plenty: The Crisis of Legacy8. The Thieves in the Night - The Spanish Flu and Covid 19: The Unexpected CrisisInconclusion (no, that is not a typo) ReferencesIndex ...
