As film students and younger fans experience "Big Hollywood Sound" in Imax presentations and digital theaters, many are also discovering action and adventure movies made well before they were born. There is a legacy to be enjoyed in the sound of these films: Blockbuster movies of the '80's, and '90's are notable for the extraordinarily dramatic impact of their sound mixing, and the way in which it could immerse audiences in a surrounding space. During this period, a small group of sound professionals in Hollywood wrote and published a critical journal about the craftsmanship, new technology, and changing aesthetics that excited conversation in their community. Their work has been edited and compiled here for the first time. David Stone is a sound editor, a veteran of roughly 100 Hollywood feature films, such asGremlins, Top Gun, Die Hard, Speed, andOcean's 11. He was a Supervising Sound Editor for projects as varied asPredator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Batman Returns, City Slickers 2, andDolores Claiborne. He has collectedGolden Reelawards for Best Sound Editing five times, and won the 1992 Academy Award®for best Sound Effects Editing, for his supervising work onBram Stoker's Dracula. In 2015, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from theSan Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festivalin California. Stone is now a Professor and former Chair of Sound Design at Savannah College of Art and Design. Between 1989 and 1994, he was the editor ofMoviesound Newsletter, which was published by Vanessa Ament. Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament is the author ofThe Foley Grail, and a contributor toSound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects(the Silver Screen Series). She is on the steering committee forCinesonika, an international film festival and conference. A veteran Foley artist, sound editor, and voice actor from Los Angeles, she also writes and sings jazz, and is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity, and the Editors Guild. She worked onDie Hard, sex, lies, and videotape, Platoon, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Noises Off, andA Goofy Movie, and many other films. Dr. Ament received her Ph. D. in Communication, in the area of Moving Image Studies, from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and is presently the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair Professor of Telecommunications, at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. | Hollywood Sound Design And Moviesound Newsletter by David Stone, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters