Audio-vision : sound on screen /
Michel Chion ; edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman
- Second edition.ition
- New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource
Translation of: L'audio-vision : son et image au cinéma
Projections of sound on image -- The three listening modes -- Lines and points: horizontal and vertical perspectives on audiovisual relations -- The audiovisual scene -- The real and the rendered -- Sound films, worthy of the name -- Toward an audio-logo-visual poetics -- An introduction to audiovisual analysis
"In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception: we don't see images and hear sounds as separate channels, we audio-view a trans-sensory whole. Expanding on arguments made in his influential books The Voice in Cinema and Sound in Cinema, Chion provides lapidary insight into the functions and aesthetics of sound in film and television"--