Books                                                                                              [i] = information

Langkjær, Birger : Filmlyd & filmmusik   (in Danish)  [i]

Maasø, Arnte: Lyden av Levende Bilder - (in Norwegian)  [i] Presentasjon av Arnte Maasø)

Alten, Stanley R:  Audio in Media, (1981) Belmont, California: Wadsworth

Altman,  Rick: Sound Theory, Sound Practice (1992) New York: Routledge  [i]

  Altman, Rick: (edit) Yale French Studies no 60, (1980) Cinema/sound special issue

 Blake, Larry:  Film Sound Today (1984) Hollywood: Reveille Press

Chion, Michel: AudioVision (1994) New York: Columbia University Press [i]

Chion, Michel: The Voice in Cinema (1998) New York: Columbia University Press^{Coming this fall}

Forlenza, Jeff and Terri Stone, eds:  Sound for Picture: An Inside Look at Audio Production for Film and Television.(1993)  Emeryville, CA: MixBooks

Holman, Tomlinson:  "Sound for Film and Television" (1997),  Boston: Focal Press

Kerner, Marvin M: The Art of the Sound Effects Editor (1989), Boston: Focal Press

LoBrutto, Vincent: Sound-on-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound. (1994), Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers  [i]

Mantell, H. : The complete guide to the creation and use of sound effects for films, TV and dramatic productions. (1983)  Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities.

Mott, Robert L: Sound effects, radio, TV, and Film (1990)  Boston: Focal Press  [i]

Pasquariello, Nicholas: Sounds of Movies. Interviews with the Creators of Feature Sound Film  (1996)
              Eleven of the world's foremost feature sound track mixers discuss recording problem-solving major feature tracks  [i]  (Book Review)
 
Weis, Elisabeth & Belton John: (edit)  Film Sound - Theory and Practice (1985) New York: Columbia University Press  [i]

Weis, Elisabeth: The Silent Scream - Alfred Hitchcocks Soundtrack (1982) Rutherford, Fairleigh: Dickinson University Press

Zaza, Anothony James , Audio Design: The Narrative Functions of Sound, (1985), Beverly Hills, California: Moss Publications, distributed by Crosscountry Film/Video

Zettl, Herbert : Sight Sound Motion. Applied Media Aesthetics (1973) Belmont, California: Wadsworth

Chapters

Bordwell, Thompson, Film Art - an Introduction, [i]

• "Sound in Cinema" (p 292-333)

Boorman, J & Luddy, T & Thomson,D & Donohue,W (edit): Projections 4: Film-makers on Film-making (Faber and Faber, 1995).

•  "Sound Design: The Dancing Shadow" by Walter Murch (p 237 - 251)

Brouwer, Alexandra and Lee Wright, Thomas: Working in Hollywood  NewYork: Crown Publishing, 1990

•  contains interwievs with production sound mixer Jim Webb, boom operator Forrest Williams, supervising sound editor Cecilia Hall, recording mixer Robert "Buzz" Knudsdson, Music editor Richard Stone and scoring mixer Dan Wallin

Chell, David Moviemakers at Work Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1987

• contains interviews with production sound mixer Chris Newman and rerecording mixer Bill Varney

Dancyger Ken, The Technique of Film and Video Editing,

• "The Early Sound Film" (p 39-52)
• "Ideas and Sound" (p 243-252)
• "The Sound Edit and Clarity" (p 227-295)

• Contains interviews with Tomlinson Holman, Walter Murch, and Richard Andersson

Reiszs, Karet & Millar, Gavin: The Technique of Film Editing

• "Sound Editing" (p 256-272)

Madsen, Roy Paul: Working Cinema - Learning from the Masters Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1990

• "The Sound Designer with Walter Murch" (p 289-313)

• contains section on sound director Gordon Sawyer

• contains section on with film directors discussing sound

Rebello, Stephen Alfred Hitchcock and  the Making of Psycho   New York:Dembner Books, 1990

•  Hitchcocks use of  Sound in Psycho

Sayles, John Thinking in Pictures: The Making of Matewan Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 1987

• contains section on sound in the movie Matewan

Shorris, Sylvia & Abbott Bundy, Marion: Talking Pictures (The New Press, 1994).

• "Hearing the Pins Drop" is the chapter dealing with sound effects.

• contains section on the sound on Wadjas use of sound

In Journals
(links to complete articles)
 

• Aldred, John: Cinema Loudspeakers AMPS Newsletter 21 - March 1997

• Aldred, J Fifty years of sound American Cinematographer Sept. 1981 (p 888-889 892-897) -- History of development of sound in films

• Aldred, John: Fantasia!  (Part 1) AMPS Newsletter 15 - October 1995
   (Part 2) AMPS Newsletter 16 - December 1995
 
• Allen, Bob: 70 Years of Synch Sound Newsletter 19 - October 1996

-- two British Engineers In At The Begineering
 
• Allen, Bob: What is Cinerama? AMPS Newsletter 11 - September 1994

-- a description of the development of Cinerama
 
• Allen, Bob: Why The Jazz Singer? AMPS Newsletter 23 - Autumn 1997

-- the history of talking pictures
 
• Altman, Rick: The Sound of Sound - A Brief History of the Reproduction of Sound in Movie Theaters, Vol. 21, Cineaste, 01-01-1995

• Bernds, Edward: The Birth of Talkies American,   American Film 6  no 10, September 1981

• Bobrow, Andrew C: The Art of the Soundman: An interview with Christopher Newman Filmmakers Newsletter 7 no 7 May 1974

• Branigan, Edward : Sound and Epistemology in Film. in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, (1989) vol. 47/ no 4.

• Braaten, Lars Thomas & Jens Toft : Bilde og lyd i film, (1989), in Edda - Hefte 1.

• Bresson, Robert: Notes on Sound

• Buskin, Richard: Beach Party, Studio Sound, Oct 97 -- the problems in capturing audio against a backdrop of surf and traffic in the Baywatch TV series,  Production and Post Production sound

• Buskin, Richard: Lost in Space, Studio Sound, April 1998 --  Audiopost production of the all-digital Hollywood picture Lost in Space

• Buskin, Richard: Making Contact,  Studio Sound sept 1997 -- Sound designer Randy Thom and dialogue rerecording mixer Tom Johnson talk about their work on sci-fi movie, Contact  -- post-production sound

• Buskin, Richard: Power and Corruption , Studio Sound, July 1997 -- Dialogue Editor Albert Lord tells about Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie,   post-production sound

• Buskin, Richard: Soft shoe shuffle, Studio Sound, May 1998   -- Jeff Payne talks about sound designing and mixing the Nike 'Suicide drills' advertisement in less than five hours

• Buskin, Richard: Sounding out The Simpsons, Studio Sound, Feb 1998 --If The Simpsons is any indication, modern animation is ready to recognise the value of a soundtrack

• Buskin, Richard: Sphere, Studio Sound, Mars 1998 --  Sound Designer Richard Beggs talks about Sphere

• Buskin, Richard: Star Trek, Studio Sound, Aug 1997   -- Production Sound in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager series

• Buskin, Richard: Titanic, Studio Sound, Jan 1998  -- post-production sound

•  Carlsson, Sven E: Synchresis - Om syntesen mellan synkrona rörelser i bild och ljud, Filmhäftet 1994/4

•  Droney, Maureen: The Peacemaker, Mix Magazine, 1997  -- post-production sound

• Fawell, John: Sound and Silence, Image and Invisibility in Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle, Film Quarterly, 0ct. 1990 (p 221 - 229)

• Gentry, Ric: Alan Splet and sound effects for Dune American cinematographer dec 84 (page 62 -72 )

• Gorbman Claudia, Chion´s AudioVision, Wide Angle, volume 15 nr 1 jan -93 (p 66-77)

• Harris, R.J., Jr.: The foley artists are a noisy bunch in movie making. (1992, Dec 21) The Wall Street Journal, pp. A1 &  A5.

• Higson, Andrew Sound Cinema Screen jan-feb 84 (p 74 - 78)--Semiotics of sound and aural posting of the spectator

• Hilton, Kevin:  Walter Murch - The sound film man, Studio Sound, May 98 -- biography on Sound Designer Walter Murch

• Johnson, William: Sound and Image - a further hearing, Film Quarterly Fall 89 (p 24 - 35)

• Johnson, William: The liberation of Echo -  A New Hearing for Film Sound, Film Quarterly , Summer 1985 (p 2 - 13)

• Kenny, Tom: Titanic -  Sound Design For James Cameron's Epic Ocean Saga, Mix Magazine, Jan 1998  -- post-production sound

• Kenny, Tom: The Bat is Back - Sound Creation for "Batman Forever", Mix Magazine, July 1995 -- Sound Design, ADR, and Foley

• Kenny, Tom: Cruising With David Lynch Down The Lost Highway, Mix Magazine, January 1997   -- post-production sound

• Levin, Tom, The Acoustic Dimension - notes on cinema sound, Screen , May, June 1984 (p 65 - 67)

• Magid, Ron: Serafine, Poltergeist II - the other side American Cinematographer, July 86 (p 50 -56, 58 -64, 66 - 68, 70)

• Mancini, Marc: Sound thinking  Film comment 19 no 6, November - December 1983 includes profiles of sound designers Frank Serafine, Jimmy Macdonald, and Ben Burt

• Mix 16, no 9, September 1992 Special issue on film sound:includes article on film sound pioneer James G Stewart

• Maasø, Arnte; "Il Tempo Gigante sprenger lydmuren", i Cinema Paradiso (1995 )

• Masøø, Arnte; "Lydkonvensjoner i lydfilmen", i Norsk medietidsskrift, nr. 2/95. (1995)

• 1992 Craft Series Sound, Hollywood Reporter 320, February 18, 1992 Special issue contains profile of sound designer Skip Lievsay

• 1993 Craft Series Sound, Hollywood Reporter 325, February 10, 1993 Special issue contains profile of sound designer Gary Rydstrom

• Petric, Vlada, Sight and Sound: Counterpoint or Entity? Filmmakers Newsletter 6, no 7, May 1973

• Prince, David: The Aesthetics and Practice of Sound, Wide Angle, 1978 (p 68 -72)

• Ruoff, Jeffrey: Conventions of Sound in Documentary, Cinema Journal, 24 - 40 (Spring 1993)

• Rudolph, Eric: Living with The Men in Black - a year in the life of a  Supervising Sound Editor, Mix Magazine, 1997 - Skip Lievsay's diary entries, with comments attached from post-production

• Sanger, George: Sound for the Eye,   Millimeter 11, no 5, May 1983 contains profile on sound designer Frank Serafine

• Serafine, Frank "Creating the undersea sounds of Red October" American Cinematographer, no.1.,USA (1990)

• Serafine, Frank, "Supernatural Noises for Poltergeist"   American Cinematographer 67, no.7, July 1986

• Spotnitz, F Stick it in your ear American film 15, no 1, October 1989  p 40 - 45 --The art of creating sound effects told by Sound designers Walter Murch and Mark Mangini including a glossary of terms

• Stern, Lestly: The oblivious transfer analyzing blue velvet,  Camera obscura may 93 p 76 -91 -- psychoanalytic drama of transference through aural dimensions

• Sturhahn, Larry: "An Interview with Walter Murch" Filmmakers Newsletter8. no. 2, dec-74, p 22-26

• Thom, Randy: Are Movies Getting Too Loud? CAS Journal -- Digital Doesn't Make Movies Too Loud, People Do!

• Thom, Randy: Designing a Movie for Sound, CAS Journal -- become more aware of the ways sound can  function in a movie

• Thom, Randy: Confessions Of An Occasional Sound Designer , CAS Journal -- .I spend a lot of time thinking about movie sound, and why it is that we who practice the craft are so often ignored

• Thom, Randy: More Confessions Of An Occasional Sound Designer, CAS Journal -- A Sound Fails In The Forest Where Nobody Hears It , post-production sound

• Thom, Randy: A Few notes on "FORREST GUMP" CAS Journal -- "Doing the sound for Forrest Gump may have been the most pleasant working experience I've had",   post-production sound

• Thom, Randy: The Machinery Aimed At The Ear, CAS Journal -- Shaping Sound Effects for Sci Fi and Action Adventure Film,  post-production sound

• Ulano, Mark: Moving Pictures That Talk  C.A.S  Journal -- the early film sound

• Weis, Elisabeth: "Sync Tanks - the Art and Technique of Post production Sound", Cineaste 95 XXI / 1-2 p 56 - 61 - -Describes technical processes of  how sound is designed and produced for a major Hollywood feature from location recording during production to post production editing and dialog.

• Weis, Elisabeth: "The Sound of One Wing Flapping"  Film Comment, 14 no.5 (Sept. - Oct. 1978) p 42 - 48  -- Hitchcock's sound style: variety, irony, sound-image counterpoint. Extended analysis of The Bird's orchestration of sound effects

• Wood, Nancy: Towards a semiotics of the transition to sound - spatial and temporal codes

Other books:

Schneider, Arthur: Electronic Post Production Terms and Concepts. Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1990.
Kozloff, Sarah: Invisible Storytellers, voice-over narration in american fiction film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988
 

• Student papers at School of Radio and Television Arts, Canada

contains several papers on film sound
 
• Film-Philosophy:

• Bibliographies
• On line Writings

• Mary Ann Doanne Bibliography

• Bibliography of Public Broadcasting Research

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