Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter

Introduction

(Life:) “You live it forward but understand it backwards.”

—Abraham Verghes, in Cutting for Stone: A novel

Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter might likely have been a professor’s “reader,” in this case, a compilation of articles from the twenty-six-year-old Moviesound Newsletter for distribution to students. It could have been reprinted at the office supply store and held together with plastic spiral comb bindings. But presented here with new comments, the material exhibits the kind of reflection the author and Prof. Ament both invest in their classes. Meaningful historical context generates new ideas and fresh energy between our two generations of Film Sound aficionados, and now someone else can use those plastic ...