Audio-Vision - Sound on Screen

Michel Chion

Columbia University Press

1990

239 páginas

7h 58m

ISBN-10: 0231078994

In Audio-vision, the French composer-filmmaker-critic Michel Chion presents a reassessment of the udiovisual media since sound`s revolutionary debut in 1927 and sheds light on the mutual influences of sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion expands on the arguments from his influential trilogy on sound in cinema - La voix au Cinema, Le Son au Cinema, and La toile trouée - while providing an overview of the functions and aesthetics of sound in filme and television. He considers the effects of evoling audiovisual technologies such ad track sound, and Dolby stereo on audio-vision, influences of sound on the perception of pace and time, and contemporary forms of audio-vision embodied in music videos, video art and commercial television. His final chapter presents a model for audiovisual analysis of filme.
Walter Murch, who contributes the foreword, has been honored by both the British and American Motion Picture Academies for his sound design and picture editing. He is especially well-know for his work on The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.