Newhouse School of Communications

Stanley Alten
Professor, TRF
Television_Radio_Film

Email: sralten@syr.edu

Stanley Alten teaches audio production, applied to TV-Film aesthetics, writing, and criticism. Before joining the TRF faculty, he worked in radio and television as producer, writer, sound designer, performer, and station manager in a number of markets, including Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. He also has many film and record production credits and continues to be professionally active through his own production company.

Alten is an internationally recognized authority in sound production. He is author of Audio in Media, the leading audio production text in North America for more than two decades. It has been translated into Spanish, Korean, German, and Chinese. He has also written Audio and Media: The Recording Studio, which focuses on music recording, and A Holocaust Odyssey, a biography. He is the author of many articles for the Focal Encyclopedia of Electronic Media: Technology and Techniques, for which he serves as Audio/Radio Editor, the Encyclopedia of Radio, and World Book Encyclopedia, for which he served as Audio Editor. He is a contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd edition.

He has been honored for teaching excellence by the Outstanding Educators of America, Alpha Epsilon Rho, and the National Science Foundation.

He received his bachelor's degree in English and Communication Arts from New York University, master's degree in English from Northeastern University, and Ph.D. in Instructional Technology, with a specialization in Message Design, from Syracuse University.

Expertise:

• Audio Production
• Music Underscoring
• Sound