Designing Sound

“Presenting strong, original research, Designing Sound examines a period of remarkable and often overlooked experimentation with sound in American cinema during the 1960s and 1970s."

~Steve J. Wurtzler, author of Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

"Jay Beck puts in perspective an influential turning point in cinema's storytelling with sound, examining how young directors of the 1970s working with monaural soundtracks took on new aesthetic challenges...a critically important historical work!"

~David Stone, Savannah College of Art and Design