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The Voice in Cinema
Michel Chion
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Description for The Voice in Cinema
Paperback. Chion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma. Translator(s): Gorbman, Claudia. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282. 208 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. Chion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AN; APF. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight: 290. Translator(s): Gorbman, Claudia.
How can a voice whose source is never seen-such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho-have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brilliant essay, Michel Chion, internationally cited authority on the history and poetics of film sound, examines the human voice in cinema. The Voice in Cinema begins with the phenomenon of film's hidden, faceless ... Read more
How can a voice whose source is never seen-such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho-have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brilliant essay, Michel Chion, internationally cited authority on the history and poetics of film sound, examines the human voice in cinema. The Voice in Cinema begins with the phenomenon of film's hidden, faceless ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231108232
SKU
V9780231108232
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About Michel Chion
Michel Chion is a composer of musique concr te, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the Universit de Paris, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music. His other books with Columbia University Press are Film, A Sound Art and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen.Claudia Gorbman is a film studies professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is ... Read more
Reviews for The Voice in Cinema
[A] creative look at sound in the cinema.
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