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Audio-vision : sound on screen / Michel Chion ; edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman ; with a foreword by Walter Murch New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Call No: 634 CHIAuthor: Chion, Michel, 1947 ; Gorbman, Claudia ; Murch, Walter, 1943 Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xxvii, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: SOUND ; SOUND EDITING ; SOUND RECORDING ; SOUNDTRACKS Summary: "In 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 -- La voix au cinema, Le son au cinema, and La toile trouvee -- 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, multitrack 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 fo audiovisual analysis of film" -- Back coverNotes: Includes bibliographical references p. ([225]-227) and indexISBN: 0231078994 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0231078986 (alk. paper)LON: 93023982; 10140132
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Audio-vision : sound on screen / Michel Chion; foreword by Walter Murch; edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Call No: 634 CHIAuthor: Chion, Michel Edition: 2019Place: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: xxiii, 270 pages : illustrated ; 23cmSubject: SOUND ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN ; WELLES, ORSON ; Wenders, Wim ; DOLCE VITA, LA (FR/IT, Federico Fellini, 1960) ; PERSONA (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1966) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; TYSTNADEN (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1963) Summary: Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in audiovisual media does not merely complement images. Instead, the two channels together engage audio-vision, a special mode of perception that transforms both seeing and hearing. We don’t see images and hear sounds separately—we audio-view a trans-sensory whole.
In this updated and expanded edition, Chion considers many additional examples from recent world cinema and formulates new questions for the contemporary media environment. He takes into account the evolving role of audio-vision in different theatrical environments, considering its significance for music videos, video art, commercial television, and the internet, as well as conventional cinema. Chion explores how multitrack digital sound enables astonishing detail, extending the space of the action and changing practices of scene construction. He demonstrates that speech is central to film and television and shows why “audio-logo-visual” is a more accurate term than “audiovisual.” Audio-Vision shows us that sound is driving the creation of a sensory cinema.
This edition includes a glossary of terms, a chronology of several hundred significant films, and the original foreword by sound designer, editor, and Oscar honoree Walter Murch. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231185899Contents: 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
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David Lynch / Michel Chion ; translated by Robert Julian London: BFI Pub., 1995.
Call No: 81LYN CHIAuthor: Chion, Michel, 1947 ; Julian, Robert Place: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1995PhysDes: xii, 210 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: Lynch, David, 1946 Notes: Originally published in French: Editions de l'Etoile/Cahiers du cinema,1992; Includes bibliographies and indexISBN: 0851704573 (pbk.); 0851704565LON: abn94243351; 11032578
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David Lynch / Michel Chion, Robert Julian (trans.) London: British Film Institute, 2006.
Call No: 81LYN CHIAuthor: Chion, Michel Edition: 2nd ed.Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2006PhysDes: 246 p. : 24 cmSubject: LYNCH, DAVID ; CHION, MICHEL ; GRANDMOTHER, THE (US, David Lynch, 1970) ; ERASERHEAD (US, David Lynch, 1977) ; ELEPHANT MAN, THE (US, David Lynch, 1980) ; DUNE (US, David Lynch, 1984) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; TWIN PEAKS [TV] (US, David Lynch & others, 1990-1991) ; TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (US, David Lynch, 1992) ; WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990) ; LOST HIGHWAY (US, David Lynch, 1996) ; STRAIGHT STORY, THE (US/FR/UK, David Lynch, 1999) ; MULHOLLAND DRIVE (US, David Lynch, 2001) Summary: Michel Chion’s study of the film and television work of David Lynch has become, since its first English publication in 1995, the definitive book on one of America’s favourite contemporary directors. In this new edition Chion brings the book up to date to take into account Lynch’s work in the last ten years, including the major features Lost Highway, The Straight Story and Mulholland DriveISBN: 1844570304
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Eyes wide shut / by Michel Chion ; translated by Tista Selous London: bfi Publishing, 2002.
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Kubrick's cinema odyssey / Michel Chion London: British Film Institute, 2001.
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The thin red line / Michel Chion London: bfi Publishing, 2004.
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Words on screen / Michel Chion; edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman Chichester, U.K.: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Call No: 224.6 CHIAuthor: Chion, Michel ; Gorbman, Claudia Edition: 2017Place: New York; Chichester, U.K.Publisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: xvii,245 p.: illustrated ; 23 cmSeries: Film and CultureSubject: TITLES ; SUBTITLES ; CREDIT TITLES Summary: Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives us to read on screen. He analyzes titles, credits, and intertitles, but also less obvious forms of writing that appear on screen, from the tear-stained letter in a character's hand to reversed writing seen in mirrors. Through this examination, Chion delves into the multitude of roles that words on screen play: how they can generate narrative, be torn up or consumed but still remain in the viewer's consciousness, take on symbolic dimensions, and bear every possible relation to cinematic space.
With his characteristic originality, Chion performs a poetic inventory of the possibilities of written text in the film image. Taking examples from hundreds of films spanning years and genres, from the silents to the present, he probes the ways that words on screen are used and their implications for film analysis and theory. In the process, he opens up and unearths the specific poetry of visual text in film. Exhaustively researched and illustrated with hundreds of examples, Words on Screen is a stunning demonstration of a creative scholar's ability to achieve a radically new understanding of cinema. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231174992Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: An Infinite Inventory -- 1. The Name on Screen -- 2. Nondiegetic Writing -- 3. Diegetic Writing as Athorybos -- Part II: Writing, Reading -- 4. Fingers, Tablets, and Machines Writing -- 5. From Books Undone, Films -- 6. Half-Reading -- 7. Hearing One Language and Reading Another -- Part III: Writing in Film Space -- 8. Writing in the Land of Three Dimensions -- 9. Anagrams and Clinamen -- 10. Excription -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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