Publications
William Whittington, Ph.D. is the author of numerous articles and interviews on film and television history, sound, genre, digital culture and new media and technology. He is also the Managing Editor of Spectator, the University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism. Click for complete a biography.
BOOKS
Sound Design and Science Fiction. University of Texas Press, 2007. To view the table of contents and first chapter, click here.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Sound Design,” a chapter in Harper, Ed: Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and Visual Media, London: The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., forthcoming.
SELECTED ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
Review of A Theory of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2006) by Linda Hutcheon for Comparative Literature Studies, forthcoming.
“Sound, Silence and Horror” for Off Screen--Online Film Journal, 2007. To view this essay, click here.
"Interview with Gary Rydstrom, Sound Designer, "The Haunting," for Creative Planet. http://creativeplanet.com, August 5, 1999. For an archived version of this interview, click here.
"Home Theater: Mastering the Exhibition Experience" in USC Spectator, Volume 18, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1998.
"Surround Sound and Science Fiction" in USC Spectator, Volume 17, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1997.
"Audio Arabesque: New Sound Technologies and Techniques for Film, Television, and PCs--An Interview of Tomlinson Holman" in USC Spectator, Volume 17, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1997.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS
“Buffyoke--Fan Performance and the Tele-Musical” at Consoling Passions, Santa Barbara, California, 2008.
Co-Chair of Panel on “Contemporary Film Sound Theory” at SCMS, Philadelphia, PA, 2008.
“Sound of the Living Dead” presented at SCMS, Philadelphia, PA, 2008.
Co-Chair of Panel on “Film Sound, Film Futures” at SCMS, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
“A Sounding of the Future” presented at SCMS, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
Co-Chair of Panel on “Sound Surround in Cinema: Theory and Aesthetics,” at SCMS, Vancouver, BC, 2006.
“Surround Sound and Horror” presented at SCMS, Vancouver, BC, 2006.
Co-Chair of Panel on “Sound and Genre: Before and After,” at SCMS, London, 2005.
“Sound Transformations: The Horror Genre and Gestures of Change” presented at SCMS, London, 2005.
Co-Chair of Panel entitled “Listen Up!” (Sound and Technology) at SCMS, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004.
“Who’s Listening? Power, Paranoia and Portable Audio Technology,” presented at SCMS, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004.
“Sonic Speculation: The Emergence of Sound Design in Contemporary Cinema,” presented at SCMS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2003.
Copyright © 2008 William Whittington
