Michel Chion is the most influential sound scholar working today. In <i>Music in Cinema</i>, 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.

- Caryl Flinn, University of Michigan,

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. <i>Music in Cinema</i> combines new historical frameworks with significant aesthetic insights, illustrated through hundreds of films.

- Michel Marie, professor emeritus of film studies, University of Paris III,

Michel Chion is the world’s leading scholar of the film soundtrack, and Music in Cinema is one of his greatest works. Clearly written and jargon-free, this account of music in cinema will interest readers from students to film buffs to scholars. I appreciated Chion’s personal spin on this subject and found him making me reevaluate what I thought I knew about soundtrack music.

- Alan Williams, author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking,