Making stereo fit : the history of a disquieting film technology / Eric Dienstfrey.

• Introduction : stereo front and center -- Widescreens, headphones, and concert halls : film stereo's identity crisis -- Fantasia and failure on a theme by Bell Telephone -- More speakers, more problems : the Cinerama experience -- The triple-track disruption and the CinemaScope solution -- Perspecta, Todd-AO, and the emergence of monocentrism -- Dolby Stereo : the end of an era -- Conclusion : life's the same, movies in stereo.

• "Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit shows how Hollywood studios have instead been implementing surround-sound techniques for the past century and argues that their endurance owes primarily to the long-standing economic tension between stereophonic and monophonic sound. Throughout the book, Eric Dienstfrey analyzes newly discovered archival materials, as well as a myriad of stereo releases from Hell's Angels (1930) to Get Out (2017), to examine how Hollywood's dependence on single-channel sound left filmmakers unable to fully realize the aesthetic potential of surround sound. Though studios initially experimented with stereo's unique affordances, Dienstfrey details how film sound designers eventually codified a conservative set of surround-sound conventions that prevail today, despite the arrival of more immersive technologies"-- 

Ämnesord

Ljud  (sao)

Ljudeffekter  (sao)

Film  (sao)

Ljudinspelning  (sao)

Digitalteknik  (sao)

Sound in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Surround-sound systems  -- Aesthetics. (LCSH)

Stereophonic sound systems  -- Economic aspects. (LCSH)

Motion pictures  -- Sound effects. (LCSH)

Sound  -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques. (LCSH)

Cinéma  -- Son. (Vedettes-matière)

Ambiophonie  -- Esthétique. (Vedettes-matière)

Cinéma  -- Effets sonores. (Vedettes-matière)

sound effects.  (aat)

Sound in motion pictures  (fast)

Motion pictures  -- Sound effects (fast)

Sound  -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques (fast)

Stereoljud  -- ekonomiska aspekter (sao)

Sound  (LCSH)

Feature films  (LCSH)

Motion pictures  (LCSH)

Digital electronics  (LCSH)

Sound effects  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Sound

Sound effects

Stereophonic sound

Sound systems

Sound recording

Digital technology

Klassifikation

PN1995.7 (LCC)

791.4302/4 (DDC)

Ima (kssb/8 (machine generated))