Music in Cinema

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Michel Chion. Edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman

Summary

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.

Additional text

Michel Chion is the world’s leading scholar of the film soundtrack, and Music in Cinema is one of his greatest works. Clearly written and jargon-free, this account of music in cinema will interest readers from students to film buffs to scholars. I appreciated Chion’s personal spin on this subject and found him making me reevaluate what I thought I knew about soundtrack music.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Chion, Chion Michel
• Assisted by: Claudia Gorbman (Translation), Gorbman Claudia (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780231198899
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19889-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; ART / Film & Video, MUSIC / Printed Music / Musicals, Film & TV, Films, cinema, PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography, film; cinema; role of sound in film; music in film