Table of Contents

The Audiovisual Contract Projections of Sound on Image The Three Listening Modes Beyond Sounds and Images Lines and Points: Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives on Audiovisual Relations The Audiovisual Scene The Real and the Rendered Phantom Audio-Vision Sound Film--Worthy of the Name Television, Video Art, Music Video Toward an Audiologovisual Poetics Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis

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Michel Chion is the leading French cinema scholar to study the sound track...I know of no writer in any language to have published as much in the area, and of such uniformly high quality, as he. -- Alan Williams, Rutgers University

About the Author

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 other books with Columbia University Press are Film, A Sound Art and The Voice in Cinema.Claudia Gorbman is a film studies professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is the author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music (1987), the editor of several books, and the author of many articles on film sound and film music. She is also the translator of Michel Chion's Film, A Sound Art, The Voice in Cinema, and 2001: Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey.Walter Murch has been repeatedly honored by both the British and American Motion Picture Academies for his sound design and picture editing. He has received special recognition for his work in The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and The English Patient.

Reviews

"Chion is the leading French cinema scholar to study the sound track. I know of no writer in any language to have published as much in this area, and of such uniformly high quality as he." -- Alan Williams