Film; A sound Art [1 ed.] 9780231137768
In his new book, French critic and composer Michel Chion offers a comprehensive theory of film sound from the 'deaf
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English Pages [255] Year 2009
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Table of contents :
Preface to the English Edition
Translator's Note
HISTORY
When Film Was Deaf (1895-1927)
Chaplin: Three Steps into Speech
Birth of the Talkies or of Sound Film? (1927-1935)
Jean Vigo: The Material and the Ideal
The Ascendancy of King Text ( 1935-1950)
Babel
The Time It Takes for Time to "Harden" (1950-1975)
The Return of the Sensorial (1975-1990)
The Silence of the Loudspeakers (1990-2003)
On a Sequence from The Birds: Sound Film as Palimpsestic Art
AESTHETICS AND POETICS
Jacques Tati: The Cow and the Moo
The Disappointed Fairies Around the Cradle
The Separation
The Real and the Rendered
The Three Borders
Audiovisual Phrasing
Alfred Hitchcock: Seeing and Hearing
The Twelve Ears
Orson Welles: The Voice and the House
The Talking Machine
Faces and Speech
Andrei Tarkovsky: Language and the World
The Five Powers
God Is a Disc Jockey
Max Ophuls: Music, Noise, and Speech
Like Tears in Rain
Glossary
List of Illustrations Index
