Words on Screen / Michel Chion; Claudia Gorbman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chion, Michel., author.

Contributor:

Gorbman, Claudia.

Series:

Film and culture.

Film and Culture

Standardized Title:

Écrit au cinéma. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Writing in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Titling.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives us to read on screen. He analyzes titles, credits, and intertitles, but also less obvious forms of writing that appear on screen, from the tear-stained letter in a character's hand to reversed writing seen in mirrors. Through this examination, Chion delves into the multitude of roles that words on screen play: how they can generate narrative, be torn up or consumed but still remain in the viewer's consciousness, take on symbolic dimensions, and bear every possible relation to cinematic space. With his characteristic originality, Chion performs a poetic inventory of the possibilities of written text in the film image. Taking examples from hundreds of films spanning years and genres, from the silents to the present, he probes the ways that words on screen are used and their implications for film analysis and theory. In the process, he opens up and unearths the specific poetry of visual text in film. Exhaustively researched and illustrated with hundreds of examples, Words on Screen is a stunning demonstration of a creative scholar's ability to achieve a radically new understanding of cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Part I: An Infinite Inventory

1. The Name on Screen

2. Nondiegetic Writing

3. Diegetic Writing as Athorybos

Part II: Writing, Reading

4. Fingers, Tablets, and Machines Writing

5. From Books Undone, Films

6. Half-Reading

7. Hearing One Language and Reading Another

Part III: Writing in Film Space

8. Writing in the Land of Three Dimensions

9. Anagrams and Clinamen

10. Excription

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May. 17, 2017)

ISBN:

9780231543453

023154345X

OCLC:

984686781