Making Stereo Fit

The History of a Disquieting Film Technology

By: Eric Dienstfrey

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Hardcover | 16 January 2024 | Edition Number 1

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312 Pages

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Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit shows how Hollywood studios have instead been implementing surround-sound techniques for the past century and argues that their endurance owes primarily to the long-standing economic tension between stereophonic and monophonic sound. Throughout the book, Eric Dienstfrey analyzes newly discovered archival materials, as well as a myriad of stereo releases from Hell's Angels (1930) to Get Out (2017), to examine how Hollywoodâs dependence on single-channel sound left filmmakers unable to fully realize the aesthetic potential of surround sound. Though studios initially experimented with stereo's unique affordances, Dienstfrey details how film sound designers eventually codified a conservative set of surround-sound conventions that prevail today, despite the arrival of more immersive technologies.

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"Making Stereo Fit provides important clarifications to the scholarly understanding of stereo technology, and - with the key idea of monocentrism - introduces a crucial concept to the study of film style." * Music Sound and the Moving Image *

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