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  • Eyes Wide Shut

    by Michel Chion ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    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 ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Words on Screen

    by Michel Chion ...
    Translated by Claudia Gorbman ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives us to read on screen. He analyzes titles, credits, and intertitles, but also less obvious forms ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

    by Michel Chion ...
    Translated by Claudia Gorbman ...
    Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in audiovisual media does not merely complement images. Instead, the two channels together engage audio-vision, a special mode of perception that transforms ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey

    by Michel Chion ...
    Author wrote bestselling bfi Publishing title David Lynch 'a joy to the reader of film criticism' Choice; 2001: A Space Odyssey to be re-released in cinemas in The Spring and highly likely to be the focus of much media attention in the new year; Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), based on Arthur C Clarke's novel, is one of the most ambitious films ever made, an epic of space ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • David Lynch

    by Michel Chion ...
    Michel Chion's study of the film and television work of David Lynch has become, since its first English publication in 1995, the definitive book on one of America's finest contemporary directors. In this new edition Chion brings the book up-to-date to take into account Lynch's work in the past ten years, including the major features 'Lost Highway, The Straight Story,' and 'Mulholland Drive. 'Newly ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Sound

    An Acoulogical Treatise

    by Michel Chion ...
    Translated by James A Steintrager ...
    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Music in Cinema

    Translated by Claudia Gorbman ...
    by Michel Chion ...
    Series series 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.The first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Music in Cinema

    Translated by Claudia Gorbman ...
    by Michel Chion ...
    Series series 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.The first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Thin Red Line

    by Michel Chion ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    The Thin Red Line' is the third film to have been directed by Terence Malick. In this book, Michael Chion traces the connections to Malick's earlier work. He links 'The Thin Red Line' not only to James Jones's novel on which it is loosely based, but also to a tradition of American thought. ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

    by Michel Chion ...
    Translated by Claudia Gorbman ...
    Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Sound in audiovisual media does not merely complement images. Instead, the two channels together engage audio-vision, a special mode of perception that transforms ... Read more

    $28.49 USD