Chion Music in Cinema

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55285-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Michel 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chion, Michel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gorbman, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Filmmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Partituren, Autographen, Libretti, Liederbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Spezielle Techniken in der Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Note
Preface
Introduction: Music Redefined by Cinema
Part I: Historical Perspectives
1. Dreams and Realities: 1895–1935
2. Classicism to Modernism: 1935–1975
3. Back to the Future: 1975–1995
4. Whither Film Music? 1996–2020
Part II: The Three Faces of Music in Cinema
5. Music as Element and Means
6. Music as World
7. Music as Subject, Metaphor, and Model
By Way of Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Chion is an independent scholar, composer, filmmaker, and teacher who has written more than thirty books on sound, music, and film. His previous Columbia University Press books include The Voice in Cinema (1999); Film, a Sound Art (2009); Words on Screen (2017); and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (second edition, 2019).

Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has written widely about film sound and music and has translated several books by Michel Chion.