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Books

In scandinavian languages:
Dykhoff, Klas: Ljudbild eller synvilla? - en bok om filmljud och ljuddesign ( 2002) Liber (in Swedish)

Langkjær, Birger : Den lyttende tilskuer - Fra klassisk til moderne film. (2000) Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press [i] (in Danish)

Langkjær, Birger : Filmlyd & filmmusik (1996) University of Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanums Press    [i] (in Danish)

Masøø, Arnte: Lyden av Levende Bilder - (in Norwegian)  >>  Arnte's Soundsite

Masøø, Arnte: "See-what's-happening!": A Study of the Communicative Role of Sound in Television, PHD-thesis [i] at Arnte's Soundsite

Altman,  Rick: Sound Theory, Sound Practice (1992) New York: Routledge [i] at FilmSound.org

Altman, Rick: (edit) Yale French Studies no 60,  Cinema/sound special issue (1980)

Blake, Larry:  Film Sound Today (1984) Hollywood: Reveille Press

Brophy, Philip: (edit) Cinesonic: The World of Sound in Film  (1999) Sidney: AFTRS Publications   [i] at FilmSound.org

Brophy, Philip: (edit) Cinesonic2: Cinema & the Sound of Music (2000) Sidney: AFTRS Publications [i] at FilmSound.org

Brophy, Philip:(edit) Cinesonic3: Experiencing the Soundtrack (2001) Sidney: AFTRS Publications  [i] at FilmSound.org

Cameron, E William: (edit)  Sound and the cinema : the coming of sound to American film (1980) Pleasantville, N.Y. : Redgrave Publ. Company [i] at FilmSound.org

Chion, Michel: AudioVision (1994) New York: Columbia University Press [i] at FilmSound.org

Chion, Michel: The Voice in Cinema (1998) New York: Columbia University Press [i] at FilmSound.org

Eyman, Scott: The Speed of Sound : Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930  (1997/1999) Johns Hopkins Univ Pr.   [i] at FilmSound.org

Forlenza, Jeff and Terri Stone, eds:  Sound for Picture: An Inside Look at Audio Production for Film and Television.(1993)  Emeryville, CA: MixBooks

Holman, Tomlinson:  "Sound for Film and Television" (1997),  Boston: Focal Press  [i] at FilmSound.org

 Kenny, Tom: Sound for Picture: The Art of  Sound Design in Film and Television (1999), Hal Leonard Publ. Corp. [i] at Amazon.com

Kerner, Marvin M: The Art of the Sound Effects Editor (1989), Boston: Focal Press

Kozloff, Sarah: Invisible Storytellers, voice-over narration in american fiction film. (1988) Berkeley: University of California Press   [i] at Amazon.com

Kozloff, Sarah: Overhearing Film Dialogue (2000), Univ California Press   [i] at Amazon.com

van Leeuwen, Theo: Speech, Music, Sound (London 1999, Macmillan Press Ltd.)  [i] at Amazon.com

LoBrutto, Vincent: Sound-on-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound. (1994), Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers [i] at FilmSound.org

Mantell, H. : The complete guide to the creation and use of sound effects for films, TV and dramatic productions. (1983)  Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities.

Mott, Robert L: Radio Live! Television Live! : Those Golden Days When Horses Were Coconuts (2000) McFarland & Company [i] at Amazon.com

Mott, Robert L: Sound effects, radio, TV, and Film (1990)  Boston: Focal Press  [i] at FilmSound.org

Lastra; James: Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Represenation, Modernity (2000) Columbia University Press [i] at Amazon.com

Pasquariello, Nicholas: Sounds of Movies. Interviews with the Creators of Feature Sound Film  (1996)
              Sound track mixers discuss  major feature tracks   Interview with sound designer Richard Beggs Article at FilmSound.org

Rose, Jay: Producing Great Sound for Digital Video (2000) Miller Freeman Books    [i] at FilmSound.org

Silverman, Kaja: Acoustic Mirror : The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1990) Indiana University Press [i] at Amazon.com

Shrivastava, Vinay: Aesthetics of Sound: Critical Analysis of Sound Design in Television and Motion Pictures (1996) Kendall/Hunt Publ.  Company

Sonnenschein, David: Sound Design - The Expressive Power of Music, Voice, and Sound Effects in Cinema (2001) Michael Wiese Productions [i] at FilmSound.org

Truax, Barry: Acoustic Communication (2000) Ablex Pub Corp [i] at Amazon.com

Yewdall, David L: The Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound (1999)  Focal Press   [i] at FilmSound.org

Weis, Elisabeth & Belton John: (edit)  Film Sound - Theory and Practice (1985) Columbia University Press [i] at Amazon.com

Weis, Elisabeth: The Silent Scream - Alfred Hitchcocks Soundtrack (1982) Rutherford, Fairleigh: Dickinson University Press [i] at FilmSound.org

Zaza, Anothony James , Audio Design: The Narrative Functions of Sound, (1985), Beverly Hills, California: Moss Publications, distributed by Crosscountry Film/Video

Zettl, Herbert : Sight Sound Motion. Applied Media Aesthetics (1999 ) Belmont, California: Wadsworth [i] at Amazon.com
 

Chapters

Bordwell, D & Thompson, K: Film Art - an Introduction    [i]

• "Sound in Cinema" (Chapter 7)

Boorman, J & Luddy, T & Thomson,D & Donohue,W (edit): Projections 4: Film-makers on Film-making (Faber and Faber, 1995).

•  Murch, Walter : "Sound Design: The Dancing Shadow"   (p 237 - 251)

• Cousins, Mark: "Designing Sound for Apocalypse Now" (p 149 - 162)

•  contains interwievs with production sound mixer Jim Webb, boom operator Forrest Williams, supervising sound editor Cecilia Hall, recording mixer Robert "Buzz" Knudsdson, Music editor Richard Stone and scoring mixer Dan Wallin

Chell, David Moviemakers at Work Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1987

• contains interviews with production sound mixer Chris Newman and rerecording mixer Bill Varney

Dancyger Ken, The Technique of Film and Video Editing, [i] at Amazon.com

• "The Early Sound Film" (p 39-52)
• "Ideas and Sound" (p 243-252)
• "The Sound Edit and Clarity" (p 227-295)

Giannetti, Louis D: Understanding Movies Prentice Hall 2004 [i] at Amazon.com

• Sound (chapter 5, p 185 - 220)

• Contains interviews with Tomlinson Holman, Walter Murch, and Richard Andersson

de Lauretis, Theresa & Heath, Stephen, eds:.The Cinematic Apparatus, New York: St Martin's Press, 1989

• Douane, Mary Anne, 1989, 'Ideology and the practice of sound editing and mixing' (p47-56)
  

Reiszs, Karet & Millar, Gavin: The Technique of Film Editing  [i] at Amazon books

• "Sound Editing" (p 256-272)

Madsen, Roy Paul: Working Cinema - Learning from the Masters Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1990

• "The Sound Designer with Walter Murch" (p 289-313)

• contains section on sound director Gordon Sawyer

Neale, Steve & Smith, Murray, eds: Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, London and New York: Routledge, 1998     [i] at Amazon.com

• Allen, Michael, 1998, 'From Bwana Devil to Batman Forever: technology in contemporary Hollywood cinema', Chapter 7, 'Sound' section pp 116-119
  

• contains section on with film directors discussing sound

Rebello, Stephen Alfred Hitchcock and  the Making of Psycho   New York:Dembner Books, 1990 [i] at Amazon.com

• contains section on about Hitchcocks use of sound in Psycho

Sayles, John Thinking in Pictures: The Making of Matewan Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 1987

• contains section on sound in the movie Matewan

Shorris, Sylvia & Abbott Bundy, Marion: Talking Pictures (The New Press, 1994). [i] at Amazon.com

• "Hearing the Pins Drop" is the chapter dealing with sound effects.

• contains a section on the sound effects editor with Frank Warner

• contains section on the sound on Wadjas use of sound

In Journals ( & seminar papers & webpublished articles etc)
       LINKS TO COMPLETE ARTICLES!!!
 

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Visit Film Sound Sections, 'What's New' or Movie Sound List for more articles.

• Aldred, John: Cinema Loudspeakers AMPS Newsletter 21 - March 1997

• Aldred, J Fifty years of sound American Cinematographer Sept. 1981 (p 888-889 892-897) -- History of development of sound in films

• Aldred, John: Fantasia!  (Part 1) AMPS Newsletter 15 - October 1995
   (Part 2) AMPS Newsletter 16 - December 1995
• Allen, Bob: 70 Years of Synch Sound Newsletter 19 - October 1996

-- two British Engineers In At The Begineering
 
• Allen, Bob: What is Cinerama? AMPS Newsletter 11 - September 1994

-- a description of the development of Cinerama
 
• Allen, Bob: Why The Jazz Singer? AMPS Newsletter 23 - Autumn 1997

-- the history of talking pictures
 
• Altman, Rick: The Sound of Sound - A Brief History of the Reproduction of Sound in Movie Theaters, Vol. 21, Cineaste, 01-01-1995

• Bernds, Edward: The Birth of Talkies American,  American Film 6  no 10, September 1981

• Bobrow, Andrew C: The Art of the Soundman: An interview with Christopher Newman Filmmakers Newsletter 7 no 7 May 1974

• Branigan, Edward : Sound and Epistemology in Film. in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, (1989) vol. 47/ no 4.

• Braaten, Lars Thomas & Jens Toft : Bilde og lyd i film, (1989), in Edda - Hefte 1.

• Bresson, Robert: Notes on Sound

• Buskin, Richard: Babe Pig in the city,  Studio Sound Jan 1999 -- Audio Post-production  - Voicing animals' antics

• Buskin, Richard: Beach Party, Studio Sound, Oct 97 -- the problems in capturing audio against a backdrop of surf and traffic in the Baywatch TV series,  Production and Post Production sound

• Buskin, Richard: Lost in Space,Studio Sound, April 1998 -- Audio Post-production of the all-digital Hollywood picture Lost in Space

• Buskin, Richard: Making Contact, Studio Sound Sept 1997 -- Sound designer Randy Thom and dialogue rerecording mixer Tom Johnson talk about their work on sci-fi movie, Contact -- post-production sound

• Buskin, Richard:The Matrix Young guns, new tricks, Studio Sound June 1999 post-production sound article

• Buskin, Richard: The Prince of Egypt, Studio Sound, February 1999 -- Audio Post-production

• Buskin, Richard: Soft shoe shuffle, Studio Sound, May 1998   -- Jeff Payne talks about sound designing and mixing the Nike 'Suicide drills' advertisement in less than five hours

• Buskin, Richard: Sounding out The Simpsons, Studio Sound, Feb 1998 --If The Simpsons is any indication, modern animation is ready to recognise the value of a soundtrack

• Buskin, Richard: Sphere, Studio Sound, Mars 1998 --  Sound Designer Richard Beggs talks about Sphere

• Buskin, Richard: Star Trek, Studio Sound, Aug 1997   -- Production Sound in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager series

• Buskin, Richard: The Sparring Partners Studio Sound, Aug 1999  -- Sound designer Ren Klyce work in The Fight Club

• Buskin, Richard: Titanic, Studio Sound, Jan 1998  -- Audio Post-production

• Calhoun, John: The Fifth Element TCI May 1997

• Carlsson, Sven E: Synchresis - Om syntesen mellan synkrona rörelser i bild och ljud, Filmhäftet 1994/4   (In Swedish)

• Carrol, Noël: Lang, Pabst, and Sound,   Ciné-tracts (vol 2, no1 Spring 1963 p 6-7

• Cavalcanti, Alberto: Sound in Films,  Films (Vol. 1 no2, Nov 1939, p 25-39)

• Chang, Maria L: The Sound  of  Star Wars, Science World, 05/10/99, Vol. 55 Issue 14, p20,

• Clair, René: The Art of  Sound

• Fawell, John: Sound and Silence, Image and Invisibility in Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle, Film Quarterly, 0ct. 1990 (p 221 - 229)

• Gentry, Ric: Alan Splet and sound effects for Dune American cinematographer dec 84 (page 62 -72 )

• Gorbman Claudia, Chion´s AudioVision, Wide Angle, volume 15 nr 1 jan -93 (p 66-77)  [excerpt ]

• Harris, R.J., Jr.: The foley artists are a noisy bunch in movie making. (1992, Dec 21) The Wall Street Journal, pp. A1 &  A5.

• Higson, Andrew Sound Cinema Screen jan-feb 84 (p 74 - 78)--Semiotics of sound and aural posting of the spectator

• Hilton, Kevin:  Walter Murch - The sound film man, Studio Sound, May 98 -- biography on Sound Designer Walter Murch

• Hilton, Kevin: Elizabeth - A question of balance, Studio Sound November 1998 -- Audio Post-production

• Hilton, Kevin: Shakespeare in Love Studio Sound April 1999   -- Audio Post-production

• Jarrett, Michael: Sound Doctrine: An Interview with Walter Murch, the "director's cut" of an article found in Film Quarterly (Spring 2000).

• Johnson, William: Sound and Image - a further hearing, Film Quarterly Fall 89 (p 24 - 35)

• Johnson, William: The liberation of Echo -  A New Hearing for Film Sound, Film Quarterly , Summer 1985 (p 2 - 13)

• Katz, Joy:  Walter Murch in conversation with Joy Katz, Parnassus: Poetry in Review - The Movie Issue (vol 22, 1997, p124-153)

• Kenny, Tom: The Bat is Back - Sound Creation for "Batman Forever", Mix Magazine, July 1995 -- Sound Design, ADR, and Foley

• Kenny, Tom: Titanic -  Sound Design For James Cameron's Epic Ocean Saga, Mix Magazine, Jan 1998  -- Audio Post-production

• Kenny, Tom: Bringing Down the House - Sound for Brian De Palma's "Snake Eyes" Mix Magazine September 1998  -- Audio Post-production

• Langkjær, Birger:  Spatial Perception and Technologies of Cinema Sound in Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Winter 1997, Volume 3, Number 4 ISSN: 1354 8565 ISBN: 1 86020 024 9

• Levin, Tom, The Acoustic Dimension - notes on cinema sound, Screen , May, June 1984 (p 65 - 67)

• Magid, Ron: Serafine, Poltergeist II - the other side American Cinematographer, July 86 (p 50 -56, 58 -64, 66 - 68, 70)

• Mancini, Marc: Sound thinking  Film comment 19 no 6, November - December 1983 includes profiles of sound designers Frank Serafine, Jimmy Macdonald, and Ben Burt

• Mix 16, no 9, September 1992 Special issue on film sound:includes article on film sound pioneer James G Stewart

• Maasø, Arnte; "Il Tempo Gigante sprenger lydmuren", i Cinema Paradiso (1995 )   (in Norwegian)

• Masøø, Arnte; "Lydkonvensjoner i lydfilmen", i Norsk medietidsskrift, nr. 2/95. (1995)  (in Norwegian)

• Milicevic, Mladen: Film Sound Beyond Reality - Subjective Sound in Narrative Cinema

• 1992 Craft Series Sound, Hollywood Reporter 320, February 18, 1992 Special issue contains profile of sound designer Skip Lievsay

• 1993 Craft Series Sound, Hollywood Reporter 325, February 10, 1993 Special issue contains profile of sound designer Gary Rydstrom

• Petric, Vlada, Sight and Sound: Counterpoint or Entity? Filmmakers Newsletter 6, no 7, May 1973

• Prince, David: The Aesthetics and Practice of Sound, Wide Angle, 1978 (p 68 -72)

• Ruoff, Jeffrey: Conventions of Sound in Documentary, In Sound Theory/Sound Practice, Rick Altman, ed. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall 1992, (p 217-234)

• Sanger, George: Sound for the Eye,   Millimeter 11, no 5, May 1983 contains profile on sound designer Frank Serafine

• Serafine, Frank "Creating the undersea sounds of Red October" American Cinematographer, no.1.,USA (1990)

• Serafine, Frank, "Supernatural Noises for Poltergeist"  American Cinematographer 67, no.7, July 1986

• Sergi,  Gianluca: The Sonic Playground: Hollywood Cinema and its Listeners

• Sider, Larry: Sound in Tarkovski's Sacrifice,  School of Sound seminar, London 1999 - Interview with Owe Svensson, Swedish Sound Mixer

• Shatkin, Elina: Randy Thom, Sound Designer,  'What Lies Beneath'   Editors Net  August 3,  2000

• Spotnitz, F Stick it in your ear American film 15, no 1, October 1989  p 40 - 45 --The art of creating sound effects told by Sound designers Walter Murch and Mark Mangini including a glossary of terms

• Stern, Lestly: The oblivious transfer analyzing blue velvet, Camera obscura may 93 p 76 -91 -- psychoanalytic drama of transference through aural dimensions

• Sturhahn, Larry: "An Interview with Walter Murch" Filmmakers Newsletter8. no. 2, dec-74, p 22-26

• Thom, Randy: Are Movies Getting Too Loud? CAS Journal -- Digital Doesn't Make Movies Too Loud, People Do!

• Thom, Randy: Designing a Movie for Sound, CAS Journal -- become more aware of the ways sound can  function in a movie

• Thom, Randy: Confessions Of An Occasional Sound Designer , CAS Journal -- .I spend a lot of time thinking about movie sound, and why it is that we who practice the craft are so often ignored

• Thom, Randy: More Confessions Of An Occasional Sound Designer, CAS Journal -- A Sound Fails In The Forest Where Nobody Hears It , post-production sound

• Thom, Randy: A Few notes on "FORREST GUMP" CAS Journal -- "Doing the sound for Forrest Gump may have been the most pleasant working experience I've had",   post-production sound

• Thom, Randy: The Machinery Aimed At The Ear, - Shaping Sound Effects for Sci Fi and Action Adventure Film,  CAS Journal -- , post-production sound

• Thom, Randy: On Being Creative,  CAS Journal

• Ulano, Mark: Moving Pictures That Talk  C.A.S  Journal -- the early film sound

• Weis, Elisabeth: "Sync Tanks - the Art and Technique of Post production Sound", Cineaste 95 XXI / 1-2 p 56 - 61 - -Describes technical processes of  how sound is designed and produced for a major Hollywood feature from location recording during production to post production editing and dialog.

• Weis, Elisabeth: "The Sound of One Wing Flapping"  Film Comment, 14 no.5 (Sept. - Oct. 1978) p 42 - 48  -- Hitchcock's sound style: variety, irony, sound-image counterpoint. Extended analysis of The Bird's orchestration of sound effects
• Weis, Elisabeth: "Eavesdropping:  an aural analogue of voyeurism?"(in Cinesonic

• Williams, Alan: Godard's use of Sound, Camera Obscura (Autum 1982, 0 193 - 210)

• Williams, Martin: "The Audible Image Films in Review, no5, Aug/Sept 1954, p 371-373

• Wood, Nancy: Towards a semiotics of the transition to sound - spatial and temporal codes

Other books:
Schneider, Arthur: Electronic Post Production Terms and Concepts. Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1990.
 

Gunnar Ribrant: Styleparameters in Film Sound  (Academic Essay in pdf,  200 K)

Online articles by Philip Tagg   
Philip Tagg is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of popular music studies and music semiotics. He has produced studies of the Kojak theme music, of Abba's "Fernando", and is currently completing a major research project into title and advertising music.

• Student papers at School of Radio and Television Arts, Canada

contains several papers on film sound
 
• Film-Philosophy:
• Bibliographies
• On line Writings
• Mary Ann Doanne Bibliography
• Bibliography of Public Broadcasting Research

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