Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (Paperback, second edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Michel Chion
Translators:	Claudia Gorbman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	296
Edition:	second edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-18589-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	0-231-18589-8
Barcode:	9780231185899

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