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Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures: A Guide to the Invisible Art John Purcell Dialogue editing is a crucial yet invisible part of filmmaking. Do it right, and no one notices. Do it wrong, and your film or video sounds messy, distracting, and unrealistic. This is…
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Hearing History: A Reader Mark Smith Hearing History is a long-needed introduction to the basic tenets of what is variously termed historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. Gathering twenty-one of the field’s most important writings, this volume will deepen and broaden our understanding of…
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Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age Kate Lacey In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern…
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Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond Hillel Schwartz When did the “silent deeps” become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How…
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The Complete Guide to Game Audio: For Composers, Musicians, Sound Designers, Game Developers (Gama Network Series) Aaron Marks Turn your musical passion into a profitable career with this exhaustive, indispensable resource for game audio. Develop the business and technical skills you need to succeed in…
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Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama Neil Verma For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique…
