Audio-Vision - Softcover

• Michel Chion’s landmark book has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994.
• In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that sound in film qualitatively produces a new form of perception and shows us that sound is driving the creation of a sensory cinema.

• This updated and expanded 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.

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.

In this updated 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.”

 Pages: 270

Published: March 2019

Size (cm): 23 x 16 x 2

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