
In Audio-Vision Sound on Screen French critic & composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound & image in audiovisual perception Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception we don't see images & hear sounds as separate channels we audio-view a trans-sensory whole Expanding on arguments made in his influential books The Voice in Cinema & Sound in Cinema Chion provides lapidary insight into the functions & aesthetics of sound in film & television He considers the effects of such evolving technologies as widescreen multitrack & Dolby; the influences of sound on the perception of space & time; & the impact of such contemporary forms of audio-vision as music videos video art & commercial television Chion concludes with an original & useful model for the audiovisual analysis of film