Divergent Tracks - How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound (Ament Dr. Vanessa Theme (Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair of Telecommunications Ball State University USA))(Pevná vazba)

In the 1990s, the initial transition from analogue to digital postproduction sound practices began in motion pictures when three major American film sound communities developed unique approaches to sound design largely due to cultural, labor, and economic differences between the cities. By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from each region-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that these 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.Rather than define the 1990s as an era of technological determinism-a superficial reading-it best understood as one in which sound
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