Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I: THE DAWN OF SOUND DESIGN
  • Chapter 1. Sound Design: Origins and Influences
  • Chapter 2. Music and Speculation in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • PART II: SOUND MONTAGE
  • Chapter 3. The Convergence of Hollywood and New Wave Science Fiction
  • Chapter 4. Suggestive Fragments in THX 1138
  • PART III: SOUND DESIGNING
  • Chapter 5. From Sound Capture to Construction: Building the Lexicon of Sound Designs for Star Wars
  • Chapter 6. Surround Sound and Science Fiction
  • PART IV: SOUND EFFECTS
  • Chapter 7. Genre Splicing: Horror and Science Fiction
  • Chapter 8. Alien: Audio-biomechanics
  • PART V: VOICE DESIGN
  • Chapter 9. Blade Runners: A Crisis in Voicing Authority, Identity, and Spectacle
  • PART VI: FINAL DESIGN
  • Chapter 10. Sound Mixing and Sound Design in Science Fiction Cinema: A Mixed Paradox
  • Chapter 11. Mixing Man and Machine in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • PART VII: CONCLUSION: A SOUNDING OF THE FUTURE
  • Chapter 12. What Is The Matrix? Sound Design in a Digital World
  • Appendix: Overview of the General Processes of Sound Production
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index.