Table of Contents:
  • History. When film was deaf (1895-1927)
  • Chaplin: three steps into speech
  • Birth of the talkies or of sound film? (1927-1935)
  • Jean Vigo: the material and the ideal
  • The ascendancy of king text (1935-1950)
  • Babel
  • The time it takes for time to "harden" (1950-1975)
  • The return of the sensorial (1975-1990)
  • The silence of the loudspeakers (1990-2003)
  • On a sequence from The birds: sound film as palimpsestic art
  • Aesthetics and poetics. Jacques Tati: the cow and the moo
  • The disappointed fairies around the cradle
  • The separation
  • The real and the rendered
  • The three borders
  • Audiovisual phrasing
  • Alfred Hitchcock: seeing and hearing
  • The twelve ears
  • Orson Welles: the voice and the house
  • The talking machine
  • Faces and speech
  • Andrei Tarkovsky: language and the world
  • The five powers
  • God is a disc jockey
  • Max Ophuls: music, noise, and speech
  • Like tears in rain.