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Film, A Sound Art
Michel Chion
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Description for Film, A Sound Art
Translator(s): Gorbman, Claudia; Delogu, C. Jon. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, 248 illus. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 878.
French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--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 ... Read more
French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
560
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137768
SKU
V9780231137768
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About Michel Chion
Michel Chion is a composer of musique concrete, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the Universite 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Film, A Sound Art
Michael Chion's books on film sound... have been revelotory syntheses of an expansive knowledge in elegant, accessible prose.
Dell Tamblyn Film Comment Exceedingly teachable and surely welcomed by instructors... Film, a Sound Art is indubitably an asset to the study of cinema.
Kyle Stevens Film Criticism
Dell Tamblyn Film Comment Exceedingly teachable and surely welcomed by instructors... Film, a Sound Art is indubitably an asset to the study of cinema.
Kyle Stevens Film Criticism