The Voice in Cinema

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Michel Chion

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How can a voice whose source is never seen - such as Norman Bates's mother in "Psycho" or Hal in "2001: A Space Odyssey" - have such a powerful hold over an audience? This text examines how directors have used the "being heard but not seen" to build suspense in films since the advent of the "talkies" in 1927. The book examines the power of the human voice, particularly the disembodied voice, as deployed in cinema, and considers the hidden, faceless voice, using "Testament of Dr Mabuse" as a template. Areas examined include entrapment by telephone, voice-thieves, screams of terror, siren calls and the silence of mute characters. Finally, the author looks at the marriage of the film voice and body, as figured in "Psycho's" Norman Bates.

Author Biography:

Michel Chion is a composer of musique concr te, a filmmaker, an associate professor at the Universit de Paris, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music. His other books with Columbia University Press are Film, A Sound Art and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen.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, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, and 2001: Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey.

Release date NZ

February 10th, 1999

Author

Michel Chion

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Translated by Claudia Gorbman

Illustrations

World

Pages

208

Dimensions

226x152x13

ISBN-13

9780231108232

Product ID

2492262

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