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Wenn die Worte fallen würden ... Überlegungen zur Schrift im Film

Author(s): Chion, Michel

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Writing is not only present in film through objects that belong to the diegesis (e.g. letters, neon signs, newspapers). In opening and closing credits as well as in intertitles, writing claims its own space – especially in silent movies, but also in the era of talkies. From there, it sometimes penetrates into the physical space of the film; at times the space of the opening credits appears as 〉real〈 space. Especially interesting are those cases in which letters and words seem to be themselves subjected to the laws of physical space, motion and gravity. This leads to interferences and paradoxes between two incompatible logics.

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Chion, Michel: Wenn die Worte fallen würden ... Überlegungen zur Schrift im Film. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 4 (2013), Nr. 1, S. 11-27. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18513.
@ARTICLE{Chion2013,
 author = {Chion, Michel},
 title = {Wenn die Worte fallen würden ... Überlegungen zur Schrift im Film},
 year = 2013,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18513}",
 volume = 4,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {11--27},
}
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