Description
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 the area, and of such uniformly high quality, as he. -- Alan Williams, Rutgers University
About the Author
Michel Chion is a composer of musique concrete, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the Universite de Paris, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music. His other books with Columbia University Press are Film, A Sound Art and The Voice in Cinema.Claudia Gorbman is a film studies professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is the author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music (1987), the editor of several books, and the author of many articles on film sound and film music. She is also the translator of Michel Chion's Film, A Sound Art, The Voice in Cinema, and 2001: Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey.Walter Murch has been repeatedly honored by both the British and American Motion Picture Academies for his sound design and picture editing. He has received special recognition for his work in The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and The English Patient.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231078993
Author Michel Chion
Format Paperback
Page Count 239
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press