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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen second edition


Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen second edition

Paperback by Chion, Michel; Gorbman, Claudia

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

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ISBN:
9780231185899
Publication Date:
2 Apr 2019
Edition/language:
second edition / English;French
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Pages:
296 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 30 Apr - 1 May 2024
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

Description

Michel Chion's landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in audiovisual media does not merely complement images. Instead, the two channels together engage audio-vision, a special mode of perception that transforms both seeing and hearing. We don't see images and hear sounds separately-we audio-view a trans-sensory whole. In this updated and expanded edition, Chion considers many additional examples from recent world cinema and formulates new questions for the contemporary media environment. He takes into account the evolving role of audio-vision in different theatrical environments, considering its significance for music videos, video art, commercial television, and the internet, as well as conventional cinema. Chion explores how multitrack digital sound enables astonishing detail, extending the space of the action and changing practices of scene construction. He demonstrates that speech is central to film and television and shows why "audio-logo-visual" is a more accurate term than "audiovisual." Audio-Vision shows us that sound is driving the creation of a sensory cinema. This edition includes a glossary of terms, a chronology of several hundred significant films, and the original foreword by sound designer, editor, and Oscar honoree Walter Murch.

Contents

Foreword (1994), by Walter Murch Preface Part I. The Audiovisual Contract 1. Projections of Sound on Image 2. The Three Listening Modes 3. Lines and Points: Horizontal and Vertical Perspectives on Audiovisual Relations 4. The Audiovisual Scene 5. The Real and the Rendered 6. Phantom Audio-Vision; or, The Audio-Divisual Part II. Beyond Sounds and Images 7. Sound Film Worthy of the Name 8. Toward an Audio-Logo-Visual Poetics 9. An Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis Glossary Chronology: Landmarks of the Sound Film Notes Bibliography Index

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