Michel Marie, professor emeritus of film studies, University of Paris III:
Ever since his first book on cinema, I have been fascinated by Michel Chion’s approach to sound, music, and speech in relation to the moving image. Without fail, he proposes startlingly original perspectives on movies ranging from the well-known to the rare and obscure. Music in Cinema combines new historical frameworks with significant aesthetic insights, illustrated through hundreds of films.

Caryl Flinn, University of Michigan:
Michel Chion is the most influential sound scholar working today. In Music in Cinema, he examines film music through expansive, multiple lenses, combining histories of different practices with theoretical and analytical insights. Claudia Gorbman’s expert translation retains Chion’s engaging writing style, combining its quirky phrasing and shrewd observations. An intellectual delight.