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Film, a Sound Art
Paper, 560 pages, 248 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13777-5
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Cloth, 560 pages, 248 illus.
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Preface to the English Edition, by
Translator's Note
Part One by History
Chapter 1, by When Film Was Deaf (1895-1927)
Chapter 2, by Chaplin-Three Steps into Speech
Chapter 3, by Birth of the Talkies or of Sound Film? (1927-1935)
Chapter 4, by Jean Vigo-The Material and the Ideal
Chapter 5, by The Ascendancy of King Text (1935-1950)
Chapter 6, by Babel
Chapter 7, by The Time It Takes for Time to "Harden" (1950-1975)
Chapter 8, by The Return of the Sensorial (1975-1990)
Chapter 9, by The Silence of the Loudspeakers (1990-2003)
Chapter 10, by On a Sequence from The Birds: Sound Film as Palimpsestic Art
Part Two by Aesthetics and Poetics
Chapter 11, by Jacques Tati, the Cow, and the Moo
Chapter 12, by The Disappointed Fairies Around the Cradle
Chapter 13, by The Separation
Chapter 14, by The Real and the Rendered
Chapter 15, by The Three Borders
Chapter 16, by Audiovisual Phrasing
Chapter 17, by Alfred Hitchcock: Seeing and Hearing
Chapter 18, by The Twelve Ears
Chapter 19, by Orson Welles: The Voice and the House
Chapter 20, by The Talking Machine
Chapter 21, by Faces and Speech
Chapter 22, by Andrei Tarkovsky: Language and the World
Chapter 23, by The Five Powers
Chapter 24, by God Is a Disc Jockey
Chapter 25, by Max Ophuls: Music, Noise, and Speech
Chapter 26, by Like Tears in Rain
Glossary
List of Illustrations
Index