History. When film was deaf (1895-1927)
Chaplin: three steps into speech
Birth of the talkies or of sound film? (1927-1935)
Jean Vigo: the material and the ideal
The ascendancy of king text (1935-1950)
Babel
The time it takes for time to "harden" (1950-1975)
The return of the sensorial (1975-1990)
The silence of the loudspeakers (1990-2003)
On a sequence from The birds: sound film as palimpsestic art
Aesthetics and poetics. Jacques Tati, the cow, and the moo
The disappointed fairies around the cradle
The separation
The real and the rendered
The three borders
Audiovisual phrasing
Alfred Hitchcock: seeing and hearing
The twelve ears
Orson Welles: the voice and the house
The talking machine
Faces and speech
Andrei Tarkovsky: language and the world
The five powers
God is a disc jockey
Max Ophuls: music, noise, and speech
Like tears in rain.
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Film, a sound art by Michel Chion. ISBN 9780231137775. Published by Columbia University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
