Translator's Note
Preface
Introduction: Music Redefined by Cinema
Part I: Historical Perspectives
1. Dreams and Realities: 1895-1935
2. Classicism to Modernism: 1935-1975
3. Back to the Future: 1975-1995
4. Whither Film Music? 1996-2020
Part II: The Three Faces of Music in Cinema
5. Music as Element and Means
6. Music as World
7. Music as Subject, Metaphor, and Model
By Way of Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Index

Michel Chion is an independent scholar, composer, filmmaker, and teacher who has written more than thirty books on sound, music, and film. His previous Columbia University Press books include The Voice in Cinema (1999); Film, a Sound Art (2009); Words on Screen (2017); and Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (second edition, 2019).
Claudia Gorbman is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has written widely about film sound and music and has translated several books by Michel Chion.