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La voz en el cine

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La voz oculta, trampas telefónicas, la voz sin rostro y sus poderes mágicos, la alianza imposible y monstruosa entre la voz y el cuerpo filmado, ladrones de voces, gritos de terror, cantos de sirena, silencios del cine mudo... "¿Por qué incomprensible descuido, en el sistema de un cine que sin embargo se ha bautizado como hablado, se 'olvida' la voz? Porque se la confunde con la palabra."

Esta reflexión, a la que el propio autor da respuesta, le permite, apoyándose en el cine de varios autores como Mizoguchi, Tati, Bresson, Welles, Duras o Fellini y en particular en dos películas como «Psicosis» de Alfred Hitchcock y «El testamento del Dr. Mabuse» de Fritz Lang, asentar las bases de una teoría del cine en cuanto hablado.

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 1999

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April 26, 2024
Muy interesante. Intuitivo y pura interpretación. Magnífico el capítulo dedicado a la acusmática. Sin embargo, si algún referente visual que menciona no se tiene en mente puede ser un poco tedioso. Acompañado de una serie de visionados se convierte en un seminario.
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June 19, 2009
My enthusiasm for cinama and original cinematic prose and theory was partially let down by the uninteresting style of writing of Michel Chion, whose theories of the voice in cinema are quite original, but his style of writing is not really. I will give him the benefit of the doubt, thinking that some of the book's charm may have been lost as a result of the english translation from French.
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December 1, 2021
Este libro es una excelente descripción general de teorías, ejemplos y análisis de sonidos y voces en el cine. Es un poco denso y teórico, pero el tema es rico y complejo. No se lee como un libro de texto, pero tampoco es exactamente fácil de leer. Es en parte estudio de cine, en parte teoría musical, en parte psicoanálisis.

Hasta cierto punto la teoría que expone es revolucionaria y por ello tiene el mérito de sensibilizar al lector con una dimensión del cine que muchas veces no es pensada a profundidad, En general es fácil de seguir, pero no es exactamente una lectura fácil.

Se lo recomendaría a cualquier persona interesada en el sonido de las películas o el cine en general. Pero definitivamente no es una lectura para todos o para cualquier momento.

A mi lo que más me gustó son las películas que pone de ejemplo. Bajé algunas y la verdad resultaron ser una chingonería.
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January 8, 2024
A constantly thought-provoking exploration of the many ways that cinema conjures bodies-without-voices and voices-without-bodies
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May 19, 2011
At times I felt that Chion was making words up especially when he said "it's tempting to call this...." But I also thought that there so many huge words that were all pomp and not really essential, he could have made this book a lot easier to read by putting some of the terms he used in layman's terms...

Overall though there is A LOT of material in this book and the fact that I haven't actually seen any other books covering this subject I think this is probably quite an important book.

There were times when he prattled on about what happened in a movie as opposed to getting to the point, but mostly everything in this book was focused on the task at hand.
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August 27, 2012
Many nice insights into the voice and sound in cinema. I have read other books which focused more on the words (either in script or in dialogue), but less on the voice. In this aspect, this is the first time I'm reading about sound through this scope.
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October 29, 2008
I didn't like this one quite as well as the other Chion book I read, but it's still got some interesting ideas. It just seems a little disjoined and not quite as practical in places.
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October 14, 2025
This, then, is what happens when you take a voice for an umbilical cord.
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