1st Edition
Synchronization and Title Sequences Audio-Visual Semiosis in Motion Graphics
By Michael Betancourt
Copyright 2017
156 Pages
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Routledge
154 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
154 Pages
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Routledge
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Synchronization and Title Sequences proposes a semiotic analysis of the synchronization of image and sound in motion pictures using title sequences. Through detailed historical close readings of title designs that use either voice-over, an instrumental opening, or title song to organize their visuals—from Vertigo (1958) to The Player (1990) and X-Men: First Class (2011)—author Michael... Read more
Introduction; 1: The Progressive Myth; 2: A Precarious Balance; 3: The Tilt in the States; 4: Federal Repercussions; 5: The Anomalous Counterweight; 6: Beveling the Congress; 7: The Deliberation to End All Deliberations; Epilogue
Biography
Michael Betancourt is a theorist, historian, and artist concerned with digital technology and capitalist ideology. He is the author of The ____________ Manifesto, The History of Motion Graphics, Beyond Spatial Montage, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice , Semiotics and Title Sequences, and The Critique of Digital Capitalism. He has exhibited internationally, and his work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and published in journals such as The Atlantic, Make Magazine, CTheory, and Leonardo .
