"Author wrote bestselling bfi Publishing title David Lynch "a joy to the reader of film criticism" Choice; 2001: A Space Odyssey to be re-released in cinemas in The Spring and highly likely to be the focus of much media attention in the new year; Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), based on Arthur C Clarke's novel, is one of the most ambitious films ever made, an epic of space exploration that takes in the whole history of hu ..."
"French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise& mdash;it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes, devices, techniques, and effects that convert multiple sensations into image and sound, therefore rendering, instead of reproducing, the world through cinema.The first half of Film, A Sound Art considers developments in technology, aestheti ..."
"How can a voice whose source is never seen--such as Hal in "2001: A Space Odyssey" or the mother of Norman Bates in "Psycho"--have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brilliant essay, Michel Chion, internationally cited authority on ..."
"frontis., 39 b&w photos Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Eraserhead have turned David Lynch into an American cult figure. This lively book is a uniquely comprehensive account of the only director to have a smash hit TV series in the same year as winning the Golden Palm at Cannes."
"In "Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen," French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception.Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception: we don't see images and hear sounds as separate channels, we "audio-view" a trans-sensory who ..."
"Excéntrico donde los haya, David Lynch no sólo es director y guionista, sino que también ha trabajado como productor, fotógrafo, dibujante y compositor. Y es que, ¿quién no ha oido hablar de Twin Peaks o Corazón Salvaje?
De Cabeza borradora a Mulholland Drive, algunos filmes de culto como Terciopelo azul o Carretera perdida y una serie de televisión que hizo historia, Twin Peaks, han convertido a David Lynch en uno de los cineastas más ..."