{"title":"Michel Chion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichel Chion\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into the intricate relationship between sound and image in film. His works explore how audio shapes cinematic experience, blending theoretical analysis with practical study of sound as an artistic element.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed examinations of film sound, from its technical aspects to its emotional and narrative functions. Chion’s writings illuminate the multisensory craft of cinema, appealing to those passionate about \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e and the art of audiovisual storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"music-in-cinema-by-michel-chion-9780231198899","title":"Music in Cinema","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second section addresses the theoretical implications of the crossover between art forms. Chion discusses a vast variety of films across eras, genres, and continents, embracing all the different genres of music that filmmakers have used to tell their stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with live accompaniment of silent films in early movie houses, the book analyzes Al Jolson's performance in \u003cem\u003eThe Jazz Singer\u003c\/em\u003e, the zither in \u003cem\u003eThe Third Man\u003c\/em\u003e, Godard's patchwork sound editing, the synthesizer welcoming the flying saucer in \u003cem\u003eClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Kinshasa orchestra in \u003cem\u003eFelicité\u003c\/em\u003e, among many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChion considers both original scores and the incorporation of preexisting works, including the use and reuse of particular composers across cinematic traditions, the introduction of popular music such as jazz and rock, and directors' attraction to atonal and dissonant music as well as \u003cem\u003emusique concrète\u003c\/em\u003e, of which he is a composer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWide-ranging and original, \u003cem\u003eMusic in Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e offers a welcoming overview for students and general readers as well as refreshingly new and valuable perspectives for film scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431694581996,"sku":"9780231198899","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231198899.jpg?v=1774557387"},{"product_id":"audio-vision-sound-on-screen-by-michel-chion-9780231185899","title":"Audio-Vision:  Sound on Screen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichel Chion's landmark \u003cem\u003eAudio-Vision\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\" \u003cem\u003eAudio-Vision\u003c\/em\u003e shows us that sound is driving the creation of a sensory cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536243507436,"sku":"9780231185899","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231185899-audio-vision-sound-on-screen.jpg?v=1776379875"},{"product_id":"eyes-wide-shut-by-michel-chion-9780851709321","title":"Eyes Wide Shut","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Viennese novel \u003cem\u003eDream Story\u003c\/em\u003e, relocated and updated to contemporary Manhattan, \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a prosperous couple whose marriage is tested in the aftermath of a series of sinister events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe film baffled many of its first audiences. It had all the lavish attention to detail of a Kubrick film, but it seemed slow, enigmatic, too much of a dream. Michel Chion's extraordinary study of \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e makes the case that it is one of Kubrick's masterpieces and a fitting testament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo appreciate this, though, it is necessary to look at what happens on the screen without bringing preconceptions to bear. The film needs to be taken at face value. Looked at this way, \u003cem\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/em\u003e reveals itself to be a deeply moving film about characters who are not so different from real people, a film about life in which questions of meaning and motive lose their value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596370329836,"sku":"9780851709321","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a07dda86f080f73a5e8aeea36929c01c.jpg?v=1777929768"},{"product_id":"film-a-sound-art-by-michel-chion-9780231137775","title":"Film, a Sound Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrench critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise—it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes, devices, techniques, and effects that convert multiple sensations into image and sound, therefore rendering, instead of reproducing, the world through cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first half of \u003cem\u003eFilm, a Sound Art\u003c\/em\u003e considers developments in technology, aesthetic trends, and individual artistic style that recast the history of film as the evolution of a truly audiovisual language. The second half explores the intersection of auditory and visual realms. With restless inventiveness, Chion develops a rhetoric that describes the effects of audio-visual combinations, forcing us to rethink sound film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe claims, for example, that the silent era (which he terms \"deaf cinema\") did not end with the advent of sound technology but continues to function underneath and within later films. 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