In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception: we don't see images and hear sounds as separate channels, we audio-view a trans-sensory whole. Expanding on arguments made in his influential books The Voice in Cinema and Sound in Cinema, Chion provides lapidary insight into the functions and aesthetics of sound in film and television. He considers the effects of such evolving technologies as widescreen, multitrack, and Dolby; the influences of sound on the perception of space and time; and the impact of such contemporary forms of audio-vision as music videos, video art, and commercial television. Chion concludes with an original and useful model for the audiovisual analysis of film.

米歇尔·希翁（Michel Chion），法国声音理论家，具体音乐作曲家，电影研究学者，影评人。他是巴黎第三大学电影与视听研究院（IRCAV）的客座教授，同时在欧洲多家机构讲学。作为实践者，他曾加入音乐研究小组，并因其视听作品获得唱片大奖以及洛迦诺城市大奖（Grand Prix de la Ville de Locarno）。希翁出版过关于音乐与电影意象解析的著作十余部，如《声音》《电影：声音的艺术》等，曾获得（批评家协会颁发的）最佳电影图书奖。

黄英侠，北京电影学院教授、博士生导师，曾任北京电影学院录音系主任，现为北京电影学院研究部主任。中国电影家协会会员、中国电影电视技术学会会员、声音专业委员会副主任。著有《5.1路立体声影视录音操作》（中国电影出版社，2001），译有《放低话筒杆：电影声音批评》（中国电影出版社，2013）。曾经作为录音师参与创作电影《大阅兵》《喋血黑谷》《候补队员》等。