The French Film Musical
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Author |
: Phil Powrie |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2020-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501329784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501329782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The French Film Musical by : Phil Powrie
Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical. The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.
Author |
: Hannah Lewis |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2018-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190636005 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190636009 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema by : Hannah Lewis
The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that the debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding a range of French musical styles and genres shaped audiovisual cinematic experiments during the transition to sound. Lewis' book focuses on many of the most prominent directors and screenwriters of the period, from Luis Buñuel to Jean Vigo, as well as experiments found in lesser-known films. Additionally, Lewis examines how early sound film portrayed the diverse soundscape of early 1930s France, as filmmakers drew from the music hall, popular chanson, modernist composition, opera and operetta, and explored the importance of musical machines to depict and to shape French audiovisual culture. In this light, the author discusses the contributions of well-known composers for film alongside more popular music hall styles, all of which had a voice within the heterogeneous soundtrack of French sound cinema. By delving into this fascinating developmental period of French cinematic history, Lewis encourages readers to challenge commonly-held assumptions about how genres, media, and artistic forms relate to one another, and how these relationships are renegotiated during moments of technological change.
Author |
: Hannah Lewis |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2018-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190635992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190635991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema by : Hannah Lewis
The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that the debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding a range of French musical styles and genres shaped audiovisual cinematic experiments during the transition to sound. Lewis' book focuses on many of the most prominent directors and screenwriters of the period, from Luis Buñuel to Jean Vigo, as well as experiments found in lesser-known films. Additionally, Lewis examines how early sound film portrayed the diverse soundscape of early 1930s France, as filmmakers drew from the music hall, popular chanson, modernist composition, opera and operetta, and explored the importance of musical machines to depict and to shape French audiovisual culture. In this light, the author discusses the contributions of well-known composers for film alongside more popular music hall styles, all of which had a voice within the heterogeneous soundtrack of French sound cinema. By delving into this fascinating developmental period of French cinematic history, Lewis encourages readers to challenge commonly-held assumptions about how genres, media, and artistic forms relate to one another, and how these relationships are renegotiated during moments of technological change.
Author |
: Phil Powrie |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2017-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319523620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319523627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Music in Contemporary French Cinema by : Phil Powrie
This book explores composed scores and pre-existing music in French cinema from 1985 to 2015 so as to identify critical musical moments. It shows how heritage films construct space through music, generating what Powrie calls “third space music,” while also working to contain the strong women characters found in French heritage films through the use of leitmotifs and musical cues. He analyses fiction films in which the protagonists perform at the piano, showing how musical performance supports the performance of gender. Building on aspects of musical performance, and in particular the use of songs performed in films, Powrie uses a database of 300 films since 2010 to theorize the intervention of music at critical moments as a “crystal-song”. Applying Roland Barthes’s concept of the “punctum” and Gille Deleuze’s concept of the “crystal-image,” Powrie establishes the importance of the crystal-song, which reconfigures time as a crystallization of past, present and future.
Author |
: Orlene Denice McMahon |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3034317506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783034317504 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Listening to the French New Wave by : Orlene Denice McMahon
This book offers the first detailed study of the music and composers of French New Wave cinema, offering a new look at this popular film movement. The author challenges the view that these films were revolutionary because of their reliance on traditional approaches to music yet highlights New Wave directors who adopted contemporary music practices.
Author |
: Corey K Creekmur |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2013-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748654307 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748654305 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis International Film Musical by : Corey K Creekmur
A unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition.
Author |
: Jeremy Barham |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 842 |
Release |
: 2023-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429997013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429997019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era by : Jeremy Barham
In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films (the late 1920s to the 1940s). Moving beyond the traditional focus on Hollywood, this Companion considers the vast range of cinema and music created in often-overlooked regions throughout the rest of the world, providing crucial global context to film music history. An extensive editorial Introduction and 50 chapters from an array of international experts connect the music and sound of these films to regional and transnational issues—culturally, historically, and aesthetically—across five parts: Western Europe and Scandinavia Central and Eastern Europe North Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and Australasia Latin America Soviet Russia Filling a major gap in the literature, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era offers an essential reference for scholars of music, film studies, and cultural history.
Author |
: Corey K Creekmur |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2012-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748634781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748634789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis International Film Musical by : Corey K Creekmur
This is the first comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. While the musical is one cinema's few genuinely international genres, it has often functioned as an explicitly local or national form, drawing upon distinct traditions understood as 'native' rather than 'international'. Simultaneously, musicals from around the world have often imitated Hollywood models, resulting in their easy dismissal as culturally 'impure' and demonstrating the creative and ideological tension between promoting and abandoning traditional cultural forms and styles. This productive tension between local and global elements lies at the heart of international film musicals, which typically acknowledge the dominant Hollywood model while claiming their own cultural specificity.
Author |
: Claudia Gorbman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015020747823 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Film Music by : Claudia Gorbman
Author |
: Mel Marvin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1193940044 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of the American Film by : Mel Marvin