Author:
Chion, Michel, 1947-
Edition Statement:[English ed.].
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
Descriptionxii, 536 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Note:History. When film was deaf (1895-1927) -- Chaplin: three steps into speech -- Birth of the talkies or of sound film? (1927-1935) -- Jean Vigo: the material and the ideal -- The ascendancy of king text (1935-1950) -- Babel -- The time it takes for time to "harden" (1950-1975) -- The return of the sensorial (1975-1990) -- The silence of the loudspeakers (1990-2003) -- On a sequence from The birds: sound film as palimpsestic art -- Aesthetics and poetics. Jacques Tati: the cow and the moo -- The disappointed fairies around the cradle -- The separation -- The real and the rendered -- The three borders -- Audiovisual phrasing -- Alfred Hitchcock: seeing and hearing -- The twelve ears -- Orson Welles: the voice and the house -- The talking machine -- Faces and speech -- Andrei Tarkovsky: language and the world -- The five powers -- God is a disc jockey -- Max Ophuls: music, noise, and speech -- Like tears in rain.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
