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Index

Cover Half-title Page Title Page Contents Plates Preface Foreword Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Sound Design as Creative and Cultural Artifact

The Shadows Cast by Celebrity Sound Designers The Myth of Postproduction Sound as a Below-the-Line “Craft” Mapping a Digital Transition through Three Film Communities Transition through Industrial Ethnography A Writer, a Vampire, and an Explorer Notes

2 Geographical Cultures and Technological Tendencies

The Fordist Hollywood System The San Francisco Bay Area George Lucas’s Skywalker Sound in Marin County The Other Side of the Bay: Saul Zaentz Film Center and Fantasy Records The Bay Area Film Industry Expansion New York, New York The Technological Geography: A Journey from Coast to Coast Film Follows Television DroidWorks Didn’t “The Bleeding Edge” Notes

3 “Viscous Was the Word of the Day”: The Interiority of Barton Fink

Embracing an Alternative to Analog Creating an Independent Workspace Atypical Collaboration Stepping Up to the Foley Plate Sound Evokes the Uncanny Musical Chairs Getting Noticed “I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind!” Notes

Yet Another “Dracula” Adaptation Sony, Columbia, and Coppola Who Is Going to Steer the Ship? Did Technology Drive the Decisions? Collage of Collaboration Revoicing, Revisiting, and Reediting Integrating the Shadow Notes

5 “The Sound of the Desert Is Tape Hiss”: A Study in Contrasts in The English Patient

Conceptualizing and Executing Generalist as Specialist Did Sonic Solutions Provide Solutions? Foley Follies “Get Outside the Barrel of Yourself” “Color Eats Sound” Ephemeral Dualities Notes

6 Conclusion: Reassessing Sound Design as a Collective Endeavor

A Cultural Transition Three Distinctive Soundscapes The Interviews Collective Sound Design Final Thoughts Notes

Appendix A Workflow Diagram for Barton Fink Appendix B Workflow Diagram for Bram Stoker’s Dracula Appendix C Workflow Diagram for The English Patient Appendix D Sound Department Credits Bibliography

Books and Articles Online Sources Personal Interviews

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