Table of contents : Preface to the English Edition Translator's Note
HISTORY When Film Was Deaf (1895-1927) Chaplin: Three Steps into Speech Birth of the Talkies or of Sound Film? (1927-1935) Jean Vigo: The Material and the Ideal The Ascendancy of King Text ( 1935-1950) Babel The Time It Takes for Time to "Harden" (1950-1975) The Return of the Sensorial (1975-1990) The Silence of the Loudspeakers (1990-2003) On a Sequence from The Birds: Sound Film as Palimpsestic Art
AESTHETICS AND POETICS Jacques Tati: The Cow and the Moo The Disappointed Fairies Around the Cradle The Separation The Real and the Rendered The Three Borders Audiovisual Phrasing Alfred Hitchcock: Seeing and Hearing The Twelve Ears Orson Welles: The Voice and the House The Talking Machine Faces and Speech Andrei Tarkovsky: Language and the World The Five Powers God Is a Disc Jockey Max Ophuls: Music, Noise, and Speech Like Tears in Rain