Beck has book on American sound practices published

Jay Beck, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, has published his book Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema as part of the “Techniques of the Moving Image” series at Rutgers University Press. The book examines the evolution of sound practices in American cinema during the late 1960s and 1970s, and how sound design was central to the era’s experimentation with new modes of cinematic storytelling. 

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Jay Beck, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, has published his book Designing Sound: Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema as part of the “Techniques of the Moving Image” series at Rutgers University Press. The book examines the evolution of sound practices in American cinema during the late 1960s and 1970s, and how sound design was central to the era’s experimentation with new modes of cinematic storytelling.