Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema

by Jay Beck and Professor 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 more than just visionary eyes; Designing Sound focuses on how those filmmakers also had keen ears that enabled them to perceive new possibilities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813564131
• ISBN13: 9780813564135
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"