As film students and younger fans experience "Big Hollywood Sound"
in Imax presentations and digital theaters, many are also
discovering action and adventure movies made well before they were
born. There is a legacy to be enjoyed in the sound of these films:
Blockbuster movies of the '80's, and '90's are notable for the
extraordinarily dramatic impact of their sound mixing, and the way
in which it could immerse audiences in a surrounding space. During
this period, a small group of sound professionals in Hollywood
wrote and published a critical journal about the craftsmanship, new
technology, and changing aesthetics that excited conversation in
their community. Their work has been edited and compiled here for
the first time. David Stone is a sound editor, a veteran of roughly
100 Hollywood feature films, such as Gremlins, Top Gun, Die Hard,
Speed, and Ocean's 11. He was a Supervising Sound Editor for
projects as varied as Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the
Beast, Batman Returns, City Slickers 2, and Dolores Claiborne. He
has collected Golden Reel awards for Best Sound Editing five times,
and won the 1992 Academy Award (R) for best Sound Effects Editing,
for his supervising work on Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 2015, he
received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Luis Obispo
Jewish Film Festival in California. Stone is now a Professor and
former Chair of Sound Design at Savannah College of Art and Design.
Between 1989 and 1994, he was the editor of Moviesound Newsletter,
which was published by Vanessa Ament. Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament is
the author of The Foley Grail, and a contributor to Sound:
Dialogue, Music, and Effects (the Silver Screen Series). She is on
the steering committee for Cinesonika, an international film
festival and conference. A veteran Foley artist, sound editor, and
voice actor from Los Angeles, she also writes and sings jazz, and
is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA,
Actors Equity, and the Editors Guild. She worked on Die Hard, sex,
lies, and videotape, Platoon, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty
and the Beast, Noises Off, and A Goofy Movie, and many other films.
Dr. Ament received her Ph.D. in Communication, in the area of
Moving Image Studies, from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and
is presently the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair
Professor of Telecommunications, at Ball State University in
Muncie, Indiana.
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