Music in Cinema: MUSIC IN CINEMA

Author: Michel Chion

The title of the book says it all: music in a film does not dissolve into it, but is modified by it while modifying it. It is in the film itself that it must be studied. This return to the works, to their vision and their listening ― to their "audio-vision" ― reveals, far from abstract professions of faith, the richness of the scenes, the effects, the situations. Cinema is, etymologically, this movement that the movement of music sometimes drives and supports, and sometimes immobilizes and charms.

Since the first edition of this collection, the past quarter century has seen the emergence of new formulas for the presence of music in cinema and new authors; interest in the theme has continued to grow, at the same time as access to musical and cinematographic works ― by cable, tablets, internet "portable players", video on demand ― has diversified. This new edition of Music in Cinema, revised and expanded, takes this into account and shows its impact on the films themselves. It also offers an updated chronology, focusing in particular on sixty significant films among thousands.

An international round of names and films, songs and dances, images and sounds swirls through these pages, from experimental cinema to film operas, from Claude Debussy to Congo's Kasai Allstars, via Ennio Morricone, Arvo Pärt and Hans Zimmer, from Bernard Herrmann to Michel Legrand, from The Jazz Singer to Birdman, from Jean-Luc Godard to Jia Zhangke, and from Nino Rota to Federico Fellini.

ISBN: 978-2213709468