PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Michel Chion is a composer of musique concrete, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music. His previous books with Columbia University Press are The Voice in Cinema; Film, a Sound Art; and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. Claudia Gorbman is emeritus professor of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is the author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music, the editor of several books, and the author of many articles on film sound and film music. She has translated four other books by Michel Chion.
Words On Screen offers a radically new understanding of cinema. By concentrating on the written word in a very wide variety of films, Chion turns what in the past has always been no more than a passing concern into a full-fledged reading strategy, applicable to films of all periods and types. I never could have imagined that Chion would once again create an entirely new approach to cinema. -- Rick Altman, author of A Theory of Narrative We tend to take the appearance of written words in movies for granted. In this book, the great film critic Michel Chion compiles an inventory of textual effects, and shows us just how strange, powerful, and surprising words on screen can be. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University
Ghibliotheque Film Korea
The essential guide to the wonderful...
Hardback
$39.99
Not in-store but you can order this
