Popular Music and Film

Popular Music and Film
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Publisher : Wallflower Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 190336471X
ISBN-13 : 9781903364710
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis Popular Music and Film by : Ian Inglis

The growing presence of popular music in film is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary Film Studies. Written by a range of international specialists, this collection includes case studies on Sliding Doors, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, The Big Chill and Moulin Rouge, considering the work of populist musicians such as the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Sting. Contributors to the volume include Robb Wright, Lesley Vize, Phil Powrie, Anno Mungen, Anaheid Kassabian, Lauren Anderson, Antti-Ville Karja, K. J. Donnelly, Lee Barron, Melissa Carey Michael Hannan and Jaap Kooijman.

Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action

Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9781134109340
ISBN-13 : 1134109342
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action by : Amanda Howell

Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen—or heard—before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action addresses itself to an eclectic mix of film, from Elvis and Travolta star vehicles to Bruckheimer-produced blockbuster action, including the work of musically-innovative directors, Melvin Van Peebles, Martin Scorsese, Gregg Araki, and Quentin Tarantino. Of particular interest is the way these films and their representations of masculinity are shaped by generic exchanges among contemporary music, music cultures, and film, combining American cinema's long-standing investment in violence-as-spectacle with similarly body-focused pleasures of contemporary youth music. Drawing on scholarship of popular music and the pop score as well as feminist film and media studies, Howell addresses an often neglected area of gender representation by considering cinematic masculinity as an audio-visual construction. Through her analyses of music’s role in action and other film genres that share its investment in violence, she reveals the mechanisms by which the pop score has helped to reinvent gender—and gendered fictions of male empowerment—in contemporary screen entertainment.

The Sounds of Commerce

The Sounds of Commerce
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 023110863X
ISBN-13 : 9780231108638
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis The Sounds of Commerce by : Jeff Smith

A detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone in the 1960s, to the MTV-ready pop songs that occupy soundtrack CDs of today..

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9780199707973
ISBN-13 : 0199707979
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Film Music: A Very Short Introduction by : Kathryn Kalinak

Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and thoroughly engaging overview written by one of the leading authorities on the subject. After opening with a fascinating analysis of the music from a key sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Kathryn Kalinak introduces readers not only to important composers and musical styles but also to modern theoretical concepts about how and why film music works. Throughout the book she embraces a global perspective, examining film music in Asia and the Middle East as well as in Europe and the United States. Key collaborations between directors and composers--Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Akira Kurosawa and Fumio Hayasaka, Federico Fellini and Nino Rota, to name only a few--come under scrutiny, as do the oft-neglected practices of the silent film era. She also explores differences between original film scores and compilation soundtracks that cull music from pre-existing sources. As Kalinak points out, film music can do many things, from establishing mood and setting to clarifying plot points and creating emotions that are only dimly realized in the images. This book illuminates the many ways it accomplishes those tasks and will have its readers thinking a bit more deeply and critically the next time they sit in a darkened movie theater and music suddenly swells as the action unfolds onscreen. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Soundtrack Available

Soundtrack Available
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 082232797X
ISBN-13 : 9780822327974
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis Soundtrack Available by : Pamela Robertson Wojcik

DIVEssays on film soundtracks composed of popular music (rather than the composed film score) both in relation to the films, and circulating separately on record./div

A History of Film Music

A History of Film Music
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 627
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ISBN-10 : 9781316264867
ISBN-13 : 1316264866
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of Film Music by : Mervyn Cooke

This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the central focus on narrative cinema, separate sections are also devoted to music in documentary and animated films, film musicals and the uses of popular and classical music in the cinema. The author analyses the varying technological and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of film music, and concludes with an account of the modern film composer's working practices.

Rock 'n' Film

Rock 'n' Film
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 489
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ISBN-10 : 9780199387595
ISBN-13 : 0199387591
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Rock 'n' Film by : David E. James

Rock 'N' Film presents a cultural history of films about US and British rock music during the period when biracial popular music was fundamental to progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic.

Music, Money and Success

Music, Money and Success
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Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Total Pages : 537
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ISBN-10 : 9780857126467
ISBN-13 : 0857126466
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Music, Money and Success by : Jeffrey Brabec

The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Industry. Millions dream of attaining glamour and wealth through music. This book reveals the secrets of the music business that have made fortunes for the superstars. A must-have for every songwriter, performer and musician.

Global Soundtracks

Global Soundtracks
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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0819568821
ISBN-13 : 9780819568823
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Global Soundtracks by : Mark Slobin

The first volume focusing on film music as a worldwide phenomenon

Movie Music, the Film Reader

Movie Music, the Film Reader
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 216
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0415281598
ISBN-13 : 9780415281591
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Movie Music, the Film Reader by : Kay Dickinson

This reader brings together a wide range of writings to examine the role of music in cinema. Articles by leading critics including Theodor Adorno, Lawrence Grossberg and Lisa A. Lewis explore the function of the soundtrack, the place of song in film, andlook at how cinema has represented music and the music industry.