Sound Theory/Sound Practice

Sound Theory/Sound Practice provides a major re-examination of the place of sound in cinema. Individual essays cover such diverse topics as the conversion to sound, cartoon sound, documentary sound, and voices of women in third-world cinema. This collection combines unpublished articles by established scholars who first attracted academic attention to cinema sound - Rick Altman, John Belton, Michel Chion, and Alan Williams - with work written by a new generation of sound-sensitive scholars.