Audio-vision : sound on screen /

In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion argues that sound film qua...

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Main Author: Chion, Michel, 1947- (Author)
Other Authors: Gorbman, Claudia (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of: L'audio-vision : son et image au cinéma.
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Edition:Second edition.
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Summary:In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. We don't see images and hear sounds as separate channels, we audio-view a trans-sensory whole. Expanding on arguments made in his influential books The Voice in Cinema and Sound in Cinema, Chion provides lapidary insight into the functions and aesthetics of sound in film and television.
Physical Description:xxiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231185882
023118588X
9780231185899
0231185898