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Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives us to read on screen. He analyzes titles, credits, and intertitles, but also less obvious forms of writing that appear on screen, from the tear-stained letter in a character's hand to reversed writing seen in mirrors. Through 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. With his characteristic originality, Chion performs a poetic inventory of the possibilities of written text in the film image. Taking examples from hundreds of films spanning years and genres, from the silents to the present, he probes the ways that words on screen are used and their implications for film analysis and theory. In the process, he opens up and unearths the specific poetry of visual text in film. Exhaustively researched and illustrated with hundreds of examples, Words on Screen is a stunning demonstration of a creative scholar's ability to achieve a radically new understanding of cinema.

Writing in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Aesthetics --- Motion picture titling --- Motion picture subtitling --- Titling of motion pictures --- Titling. --- Aesthetics. --- Subtitling --- Writing in motion pictures --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- filmtheorie --- woord en beeld --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- filmtitels --- 791.41 --- Titling

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This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta. His wife and collaborator, Elaine, joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films, including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates, as well as an equally impressive series of film titles, ranging from Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear and Casino in the 1990s. Designed by Saul Bass's daughter Jennifer and written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham, who knew Saul Bass, this book contains more than 1,400 illustrations, many from the Bass archive and never published before, providing an in-depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century. This definitive study is eagerly anticipated by design and film enthusiasts.

Bass, Saul. --- Graphisme --- Publicité --- Logotype --- Affiche --- Emballage --- Bass, Saul --- Biografie --- Graphic artists --- Credit titles (Motion pictures, television, etc.) --- Graphistes --- Générique (Cinéma, télévision, etc.) --- Biography. --- Biographies --- Catalogs --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 766.071 BASS --- Bass Saul --- Verenigde Staten --- affiches --- corporate identity --- film --- film en grafische vormgeving --- filmaffiches --- filmtitels --- generieken --- grafisch design --- grafisch ontwerp --- grafische vormgeving --- huisstijl --- logo's --- posters --- twintigste eeuw --- 753 --- grafische vormgevers --- regisseurs --- grafische vormgeving , geschiedenis, grafische vormgevers afzonderlijk --- Ontwerpers --- Vormgevers --- 766.07 --- Bass, Saul 1920-1996 (°New York, Verenigde Staten) --- Grafische vormgeving ; met betrekking tot film --- Affiches ; filmaffiches --- Grafische vomgeving en film ; titels ; openingstitels --- Grafische vormgeving ; labels ; etiketten ; logo's ; merken --- Gebruiksgrafiek ; grafische designers, reclamekunstenaars, typografen, illustrators A-Z --- Ontwerper --- Vormgever