文档介绍：In Audio-Vision, the French composer-filmmaker-critic Michel Chion
presents a reassessment of the audiovisual media since sound's
revolutionary debut in 1927 and sheds light on the mutual influ•
ences of sound and image in audiovisual perception.
Chion expands on the arguments from his influential trilogy
on sound in cinema—La Voix au cinema, Le Son au cinema, and
La Toile trouee—while providing an overview of the functions and
aesthetics of sound in film and television. He considers the effects
of evolving audiovisual technologies such as widescreen, multi-
track sound, and Dolby stereo on audio-vision, influences of
sound on the perception of space and time, and contemporary
forms of audio-vision embodied in music videos, video art, and
commercial television. His final chapter presents a model for
audiovisual analysis of film.
Walter Murch, who contributes the foreword, has been hon•
ored by both the British and American Motion Picture Academies
for his sound design and picture editing. He is especially well-
known for his work on The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apoc•
alypse Now.
"Michel Chion is the leading French cinema scholar to study
the sound track. ... I know of no writer in any language to
have published as much in this area, and of such uniformly
high quality, a, he." ALAN W|LUAMS
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
MICHEL CHION is an experimental composer, a director of
short films, and a critic for Cahiers du cinema. He has pub•
lished books on screenwriting, Jacques Tati, David Lynch, and
Charlie Chaplin, in addition to his four books on film sound.
CLAUDIA GORBMAN is a Professor in the Liberal Studies
Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Jacket illustration: Eratorhmad by David Lynch, 1976.