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Chion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma.

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[A] creative look at sound in the cinema. -- R. Blackwood Choice

Table of Contents
I. Mabuse: Magic and Powers of Acousmetre1. The Acousmetre2. The Silences of Mabuse3. The I-VoiceII. Tamaki: Tales of the Voice4. The Voice Connection5. The Screaming Point6. The Master of Voices7. The Mute Character's Final Words8. The Siren's SongIII. Norman; Or The Impossible Anacousmetre9. The Voice that Seeks a Body10. The ConfessionEpilogue: Cinema's Voices of the 80's and 90's

The Voice in Cinema

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    A Paperback / softback by Michel Chion, Claudia Gorbman

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 10 February 1999
      ISBN-13 9780231108232
      978-0231108232
      ISBN-10 0231108230
      Also in:
      Entertainment Films, cinema Performing arts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Chion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma.

      Trade Review
      [A] creative look at sound in the cinema. -- R. Blackwood Choice

      Table of Contents
      I. Mabuse: Magic and Powers of Acousmetre1. The Acousmetre2. The Silences of Mabuse3. The I-VoiceII. Tamaki: Tales of the Voice4. The Voice Connection5. The Screaming Point6. The Master of Voices7. The Mute Character's Final Words8. The Siren's SongIII. Norman; Or The Impossible Anacousmetre9. The Voice that Seeks a Body10. The ConfessionEpilogue: Cinema's Voices of the 80's and 90's

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