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Words on Screen
Michel Chion
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Description for Words on Screen
Hardback. Translator(s): Gorbman, Claudia. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 256 b&w film stills. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174985
SKU
V9780231174985
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About Michel Chion
Michel Chion is a composer of musique concrete, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music. His previous books with Columbia University Press are The Voice in Cinema; Film, a Sound Art; and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. Claudia Gorbman is emeritus professor of film studies ... Read more
Reviews for Words on Screen
Words On Screen offers a radically new understanding of cinema. By concentrating on the written word in a very wide variety of films, Chion turns what in the past has always been no more than a passing concern into a full-fledged reading strategy, applicable to films of all periods and types. I never could have imagined that Chion would once ... Read more