Film, a sound art
By: Michel Chion ; translated by Claudia Gorbman.
Series: Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780231137768; 9780231137775
Subjects: Sound motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Sound effects; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics
Work titles: Art sonore, le cinema.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History. When film was deaf (1895-1927); title: Chaplin: three steps into speech; title: Birth of the talkies or of sound film? (1927-1935); title: Jean Vigo: the material and the ideal; title: The ascendancy of king text (1935-1950); title: Babel; title: The time it takes for time to "harden" (1950-1975); title: The return of the sensorial (1975-1990); title: The silence of the loudspeakers (1990-2003); title: On a sequence from The birds: sound film as palimpsestic art; title: Aesthetics and poetics. Jacques Tati, the cow, and the moo; title: The disappointed fairies around the cradle; title: The separation; title: The real and the rendered; title: The three borders; title: Audiovisual phrasing; title: Alfred Hitchcock: seeing and hearing; title: The twelve ears; title: Orson Welles: the voice and the house; title: The talking machine; title: Faces and speech; title: Andrei Tarkovsky: language and the world; title: The five powers; title: God is a disc jockey; title: Max Ophuls: music, noise, and speech; title: Like tears in rain.