FILM STUDIES
Music in Cinema MICHEL CHION
Edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman
Kill the Documentary
A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars JILL GODMILOW
Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other. Wide-ranging and original, Music in Cinema offers a welcoming overview for students and general readers as well as refreshingly new and valuable perspectives for film scholars.
“This provocative and engaging book by the acclaimed filmmaker Jill Godmilow raises important questions for anyone concerned about the future of political documentary.” —Deirdre Boyle, author of Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh
Sound Art (2009); Words on Screen (2017); and Audio-
Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? The award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking: a “postrealist” cinema. Both manifesto and guidebook, Kill the Documentary proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films.
Vision: Sound on Screen (second edition, 2019).
JILL GODMILOW
MICHEL CHION
is an independent scholar, composer, film-
maker, 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
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.
is professor emerita in the Department of
Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Her acclaimed films include the Academy Award–nominated Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974); Waiting for the Moon (1987), which won best feature film at the Sundance Film Festival; and What Farocki Taught, which was featured at the 2000 Whitney Biennial.
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