Michel Chion

Sound

An Acoulogical Treatise

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Produktbeschreibung

Appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360391
• ISBN-10: 082236039X
• Artikelnr.: 42743443

Autorenporträt

Michel Chion is a composer, filmmaker, teacher, researcher, and the author of several books, including Film, A Sound Art; The Voice in Cinema; and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. James A. Steintrager is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine; he is the author, most recently, of The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Closed Grooves, Open Ears / James A. Steintrager  vii
Preface to the French Edition of 2010  xxvii
I. Hearing
1. Listening Awakes  3
2. The Ear  16
3. Sound and Time  29
II. A Divided World
4. Voice, Language, and Sounds  45
5. Noise and Music: A Legitimate Distinction?  55
III. The Wheel of Causes
6. The Sound That You Cause: Ergo-Audition  83
7. Sounds and Its Cause: Casual Listening and Figurative Listening  101
8. Sound and What It Causes: Real and Supposed Effects  121
IV. Sound Transformed
9. How Technology Has Changed Sound  131
10. The Audiovisual Couple in Film: Audio-Vision  150
V. Listening, Expressing
11. Object and Non-Object: Two Poles  169
12. Between Doing and Listening: Naming  212
Notes  243
Glossary  265
Bibliography  269
Index  275