Michel Chion is a composer of musique concrète, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the Université de Paris, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music. His books with Columbia University Press are The Voice in Cinema and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. Claudia Gorbman is a film studies professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is the author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music, 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 The Voice in Cinema, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, and 2001: Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey.
Preface to the English Edition
Translator's Note
Part I. History
1. When Film Was Deaf (1895-1927)
2. Chaplin-Three Steps into Speech
3. Birth of the Talkies or of Sound Film? (1927-1935)
4. Jean Vigo-The Material and the Ideal
5. The Ascendancy of King Text (1935-1950)
6. Babel
7. The Time It Takes for Time to "Harden" (1950-1975)
8. The Return of the Sensorial (1975-1990)
9. The Silence of the Loudspeakers (1990-2003)
10. On a Sequence from The Birds: Sound Film as Palimpsestic Art
Part II. Aesthetics and Poetics
11. Jacques Tati, the Cow, and the Moo
12. The Disappointed Fairies Around the Cradle
13. The Separation
14. The Real and the Rendered
15. The Three Borders
16. Audiovisual Phrasing
17. Alfred Hitchcock: Seeing and Hearing
18. The Twelve Ears
19. Orson Welles: The Voice and the House
20. The Talking Machine
21. Faces and Speech
22. Andrei Tarkovsky: Language and the World
23. The Five Powers
24. God Is a Disc Jockey
25. Max Ophuls: Music, Noise, and Speech
26. Like Tears in Rain
Glossary
List of Illustrations
Index
