| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Film and culture series
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Film and culture.
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| Note |
Translated from the French. |
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Originally published in French as: L'Écrit au cinéma. Armand Colin, 2013. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: An infinite inventory. 1. 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. |
| 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 o. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Writing in motion pictures.
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Writing in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Titling.
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Motion pictures -- Titling. |
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gorbman, Claudia, editor, translator.
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| Added Title |
Écrit au cinéma. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017145067
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231543453 |
| ISBN |
023154345X (electronic book) |
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9780231543453 (electronic book) |
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0231174985 |
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0231174993 |
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9780231174985 |
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9780231174992 |
| Standard No. |
10.7312/chio17498 |
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