Designing Sounds for Science Fiction.(Book review)

Extrapolation | March 22, 2008| | Copyright

Designing Sounds for Science Fiction. William Whittington. Sound Design and Science Fiction. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 280pp. $22.95 pbk.

* Sound Design and Science Fiction is a compelling book, both for what it brings into play for cinematic analysis and for what it leaves out of consideration. Its primary purpose is to sketch out the development of the field of sound design in the contemporary cinema, while linking that development to the science fiction genre, since, the author argues, science fiction and sound design have "converged in a symbiotic ...

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