This guide highlights relevant library resources for the courses taught in the Film & Media Studies department. This page also includes some first year writing courses.
A term generally referring to the entire mosaic of sounds heard in a specific area. A soundscape comprises the wide array of noises in which we live, from sounds of nature, to the clang of church bells, the pulse of a salsa band at a local dance club, or the hum of traffic on a city street. ...
Prior to the groundbreaking work by Rick Altman, John Belton, Michel Chion, Mary Ann Doane, Claudia Gorbman, Kaja Silverman, Elisabeth Weis, and Alan Williams beginning in the early 1980s, the richest moment of film sound criticism occurred during the Hollywood-led conversion to mechanized sync sound (1926–1933). ...
... Sound design is also a topic of increasing interest within film music scholarship, particularly its history. The history of sound design is inextricably bound up with the history of technology, notably the emergence of Dolby in the 1970s. ...