Words on Screen

Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Michel Chion’s survey of everything the seventh art gives us to read on screen. Throughout this examination, Chion delves into the multitude of roles that words on screen play: how they can generate narrative, be torn up or consumed but still remain in the viewer’s consciousness, take on symbolic dimensions, and bear every possible relation to cinematic space.