Michel Chion. The Voice in Cinema. Edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman.New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiii183 pages. Notes andindex. $49.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).The compulsory opening for an essay or paper dealing with film soundduring the early 1980s was to state that sound was often the ignored other offilm studies and film analysis. Two decades later, the situation is different. RickAltman’s (1992) edited volume Sound Theory/Sound Practice, the books byMichel Chion, and the work by Walter Murch (2000) have already formed abase from which to approach the subject...