Film, a Sound Art

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-13777-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1116 g

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise& mdash;it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes, devices, techniques, and effects that convert multiple sensations into image and sound, therefore rendering, instead of reproducing, the world through cinema.The first half of Film, A Sound Art considers developments in technology, aesthetic trends, and individual artistic style that recast the history of film as the evolution of a truly audiovisual language. The second half explores the intersection of auditory and visual realms. With restless inventiveness, Chion develops a rhetoric that describes the effects of audio-visual combinations, forcing us to rethink sound film. He claims, for example, that the silent era (which he terms "deaf cinema") did not end with the advent of sound technology but continues to function underneath and within later films. Expanding our appreciation of cinematic experiences ranging from Dolby multitrack in action films and the eerie tricycle of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to the way actors from different nations use their voices and words, Film, A Sound Art showcases the vast knowledge and innovative thinking of a major theorist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chion, Michel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gorbman, Claudia

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition, by Translator's NotePart One by History Chapter 1, by When Film Was Deaf (1895-1927) Chapter 2, by Chaplin-Three Steps into Speech Chapter 3, by Birth of the Talkies or of Sound Film? (1927-1935)Chapter 4, by Jean Vigo-The Material and the Ideal Chapter 5, by The Ascendancy of King Text (1935-1950) Chapter 6, by Babel Chapter 7, by The Time It Takes for Time to "Harden" (1950-1975) Chapter 8, by The Return of the Sensorial (1975-1990) Chapter 9, by The Silence of the Loudspeakers (1990-2003) Chapter 10, by On a Sequence from The Birds: Sound Film as Palimpsestic Art Part Two by Aesthetics and Poetics Chapter 11, by Jacques Tati, the Cow, and the Moo Chapter 12, by The Disappointed Fairies Around the Cradle Chapter 13, by The Separation Chapter 14, by The Real and the Rendered Chapter 15, by The Three Borders Chapter 16, by Audiovisual Phrasing Chapter 17, by Alfred Hitchcock: Seeing and Hearing Chapter 18, by The Twelve Ears Chapter 19, by Orson Welles: The Voice and the House Chapter 20, by The Talking Machine Chapter 21, by Faces and Speech Chapter 22, by Andrei Tarkovsky: Language and the World Chapter 23, by The Five Powers Chapter 24, by God Is a Disc Jockey Chapter 25, by Max Ophuls: Music, Noise, and Speech Chapter 26, by Like Tears in Rain Glossary List of IllustrationsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Chion is a composer of musique concrète, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the Université de Paris, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music. His books with Columbia University Press are The Voice in Cinema and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen.Claudia Gorbman is a film studies professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is the author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music, the editor of several books, and the author of many articles on film sound and film music. She is also the translator of Michel Chion's The Voice in Cinema, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, and 2001: Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey.