Film, a Sound Art
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AlbakiReads Editorial A framework for hearing cinema differently
A framework for hearing cinema differently
Michel Chion treats film as an audiovisual art in which sound and image continually shape one another, challenging the habit of approaching cinema as primarily visual. The book’s first half traces how technology, aesthetic movements, and individual styles contributed to an audiovisual language; its second develops terms for examining what happens when auditory and visual elements combine. Chion’s discussion ranges from multitrack sound in action films to voices, language, and examples including The Shining. A central proposition is that “deaf cinema”—his term for the silent-era mode—persists within later sound films, offering a way to reconsider the history and experience of sound cinema.
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- Film students and scholars interested in sound theory
- Viewers seeking tools for analyzing the relationship between image and sound
- Readers interested in film technology, aesthetics, and cinematic language
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Audiovisual perceptionFilm soundCinema historyTechnology and aestheticsVoice and language in film
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Book Overview French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise--it enacts a process of audio-vie...
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 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.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 536 | Language: English | Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR | ISBN: 023113777X
FormatPaperback
Pages536
LanguageEnglish
ISBN023113777X
EAN9780231137775
PublisherCOLUMBIA UNIV PR
Publication Date2009-07-16
EditionIllustrated
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.7 Pounds
Length9.1 Inches
Width6.1 Inches
Height1.0 Inches
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