Eric Dienstfrey

Biography

Eric Dienstfrey is the author of Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology (University of California Press, 2024). His articles on the history of film sound technology have appeared in the Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, Film History, The Velvet Light Trap and Music, Sound and the Moving Image. In 2017 he received the Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for his article “The Myth of the Speakers: A Critical Reexamination of Dolby History”. He currently is a professor of film, media, and communication studies at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, and the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (online).