Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2019
296 pages
978-0-231-54637-9 (ISBN)
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Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. In this updated and expanded edition, Chion considers many additional examples from recent world cinema and formulates new questions for the contemporary media environment.
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Michel Chion is an independent scholar, composer, filmmaker, and teacher. He is the author of more than thirty books on sound, music, and film, including The Voice in Cinema (Columbia, 1999), Film, a Sound Art (Columbia, 2009), and Words on Screen (Columbia, 2017).
Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has written widely about film sound and music and has translated five books by Michel Chion.
Walter Murch has been repeatedly honored by both the British and American Motion Picture Academies for his sound design and picture editing. He has received special recognition for his work in The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and The English Patient.
Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has written widely about film sound and music and has translated five books by Michel Chion.
Walter Murch has been repeatedly honored by both the British and American Motion Picture Academies for his sound design and picture editing. He has received special recognition for his work in The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and The English Patient.
Content
Foreword (1994), by Walter Murch
Preface
Part I. The Audiovisual Contract
1. Projections of Sound on Image
2. The Three Listening Modes
3. Lines and Points: Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives on Audiovisual Relations
4. The Audiovisual Scene
5. The Real and the Rendered
6. Phantom Audio-Vision; or, The Audio-Divisual
Part II. Beyond Sounds and Images
7. Sound Film Worthy of the Name
8. Toward an Audio-Logo-Visual Poetics
9. An Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis
Glossary
Chronology: Landmarks of the Sound Film
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Part I. The Audiovisual Contract
1. Projections of Sound on Image
2. The Three Listening Modes
3. Lines and Points: Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives on Audiovisual Relations
4. The Audiovisual Scene
5. The Real and the Rendered
6. Phantom Audio-Vision; or, The Audio-Divisual
Part II. Beyond Sounds and Images
7. Sound Film Worthy of the Name
8. Toward an Audio-Logo-Visual Poetics
9. An Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis
Glossary
Chronology: Landmarks of the Sound Film
Notes
Bibliography
Index
