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Audio-Vision

Michel Chion

1994239 pagesabout 4–5 hours
1994
first published
  • 1994Columbia University Press · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9780231078986
  • 2019Columbia University Press · ENGISBN 9780231546379
  • 2019Columbia University Press · 296 pages · ENGISBN 9780231185882
  • 2019Columbia University Press · 296 pages · ENGISBN 9780231185899

"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"--

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