Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-18588-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chion, Michel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gorbman, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Walter Murch
Preface

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

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 (1999), Film, a Sound Art (2009), and Words on Screen (2017), all from Columbia University Press.

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.