Michel Chion is an independent scholar, composer, filmmaker, and teacher who has written more than thirty books on sound, music, and film. His previous Columbia University Press books include The Voice in Cinema (1999); Film, a Sound Art (2009); Words on Screen (2017); and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (second edition, 2019).Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has written widely about film sound and music and has translated several books by Michel Chion.

Michel Chion is the most influential sound scholar working today. In Music in Cinema, he examines film music through expansive, multiple lenses, combining histories of different practices with theoretical and analytical insights. Claudia Gorbman’s expert translation retains Chion’s engaging writing style, combining its quirky phrasing and shrewd observations. An intellectual delight.

• Translator’s NotePrefaceIntroduction: Music Redefined by CinemaPart I: Historical Perspectives1. Dreams and Realities: 1895–19352. Classicism to Modernism: 1935–19753. Back to the Future: 1975–19954. Whither Film Music? 1996–2020Part II: The Three Faces of Music in Cinema5. Music as Element and Means6. Music as World7. Music as Subject, Metaphor, and ModelBy Way of ConclusionGlossaryNotesIndex

Michel Chion is an independent scholar, composer, filmmaker, and teacher who has written more than thirty books on sound, music, and film. His previous Columbia University Press books include The Voice in Cinema (1999); Film, a Sound Art (2009); Words on Screen (2017); and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (second edition, 2019).Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has written widely about film sound and music and has translated several books by Michel Chion.

Michel Chion is the most influential sound scholar working today. In Music in Cinema, he examines film music through expansive, multiple lenses, combining histories of different practices with theoretical and analytical insights. Claudia Gorbman’s expert translation retains Chion’s engaging writing style, combining its quirky phrasing and shrewd observations. An intellectual delight.

• Translator’s NotePrefaceIntroduction: Music Redefined by CinemaPart I: Historical Perspectives1. Dreams and Realities: 1895–19352. Classicism to Modernism: 1935–19753. Back to the Future: 1975–19954. Whither Film Music? 1996–2020Part II: The Three Faces of Music in Cinema5. Music as Element and Means6. Music as World7. Music as Subject, Metaphor, and ModelBy Way of ConclusionGlossaryNotesIndex

Michel Chion is an independent scholar, composer, filmmaker, and teacher who has written more than thirty books on sound, music, and film. His previous Columbia University Press books include The Voice in Cinema (1999); Film, a Sound Art (2009); Words on Screen (2017); and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (second edition, 2019).Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has written widely about film sound and music and has translated several books by Michel Chion.

Michel Chion is the most influential sound scholar working today. In Music in Cinema, he examines film music through expansive, multiple lenses, combining histories of different practices with theoretical and analytical insights. Claudia Gorbman’s expert translation retains Chion’s engaging writing style, combining its quirky phrasing and shrewd observations. An intellectual delight.

• Translator’s NotePrefaceIntroduction: Music Redefined by CinemaPart I: Historical Perspectives1. Dreams and Realities: 1895–19352. Classicism to Modernism: 1935–19753. Back to the Future: 1975–19954. Whither Film Music? 1996–2020Part II: The Three Faces of Music in Cinema5. Music as Element and Means6. Music as World7. Music as Subject, Metaphor, and ModelBy Way of ConclusionGlossaryNotesIndex