Sync: Stylistics of Hieroglyphic Time

By James Tobias and R.F. Langley

In "Sync, "James Tobias examines the development of musical sound and image in cinema and media art, indicating how these elements define the nature and experience of reception. Placing musicality at the center of understanding streaming media, Tobias presents six interwoven stories about synchronized audiovisual mediaOCofrom filmmaker Sergei EisensteinOCOs "Alexander Nevsky "to todayOCOs contemporary digital art and computer gamesOCoto show how these effects are never amerely musical in the literal sense of organized sound.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439902011
• ISBN13: 9781439902011
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"