Audio-Vision

Review
"Chion is the leading French cinema scholar to study the sound track. I know of no writer in any language to have published as much in this area, and of such uniformly high quality as he." -- Alan Williams


Alan Williams
Chion is the leading French cinema scholar to study the sound track.I know of no writer in any language to have published as much in this area, and of such uniformly high quality as he.


Book Description
n Audio-Vision, the French composer-filmmaker-critic Michel Chion presents a reassessment of the audiovisual media since sound's revolutionary debut in 1927 and sheds light on the mutual influences of sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion expands on the arguments from his influential trilogy on sound in cinema-- Las Voix au cinema, Le Son au cinema, and La Toile trouee--while providing an overview of the functions and aesthetics of sound in film and television. He considers the effects of evolving audiovisual technologies such as widescreen, multi-track sound, and Dolby stereo on audio-vision, influences of sound on the perception of space and time, and contemporary forms of audio-vision embodied in music videos, video art, and commercial television. His final chapter presents a model for audiovisual analysis of film.


Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French


About the Author
Michel Chion is an experimental composer, a director of short films, and a critic for Cahiers du cinema. He has published books on screenwriting, Jacques Tati, David Lynch, and Charlie Chaplin, in addition to his four books on film sound.Claudia Gorbman is a Professor in the Liberal Studies Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma.


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Chion is the leading French cinema scholar to study the sound track. I know of no writer in any language to have published as much in this area, and of such uniformly high quality as he.


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