Product Description: French 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...read more

Product Description: The Thin Red Line (1998) is only the third film directed by Terrence Malick, the maverick genius of American cinema, in his thirty-year career. Set during the savage World War II battle for Gaudalcanal, it boasts a stellar cast--including George Clooney, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, and John Travolta--but otherwise goes entirely against the grain of conventional Hollywood filmmaking...read more

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Product Description: Stanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. Eyes Wide Shut was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Viennese novel Dream Story, relocated and updated to contemporary Manhattan, Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a prosperous couple whose marriage is tested in the aftermath a series of sinister events...read more

Product Description: In this multilayered study, Michel Chion offers some keys to understanding Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". Setting the film in its historical and cultural contexts, Chion goes on to locate it within Kubrick's career. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: How can a voice whose source is never seen& mdash;such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho& mdash;have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brilliant essay, Michel Chion, internationally cited authority on the history and poetics of film sound, examines the human voice in cinema...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ¿En qué se convierten las notas musicales una vez incorporadas a las películas? ¿Qué efectos producen en estas últimas las melodías, las sonoridades y los ritmos? ¿Qué tipo de espejismos e ideales representa la propia música cinematográfica después de cien años de historia del cine? A medio camino entre el ensayo y la divu...read more

Product Description: This work examines the work of David Lynch, American cult figure and director of such films as "Twin Peaks", "Blue Velvet", "Wild at Heart" and "Eraserhead". Chion details how the films came about, chronicles the creative interactions between the director and his familiar collaborators and locates the films within their contemporary American context...read more