Vanessa Theme Ament

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How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501359200
• Artikelnr.: 61354117

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Theme Ament was the Endowed Chair of Telecommunications at Ball State University, USA. She was also Senior Consultant for Undergraduate Education at UC Riverside, 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 (2nd edition, 2015).