UID:
almafu_9959695690602883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 411 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-108-11040-1
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1-108-10563-7
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1-316-14678-2
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to music
Content:
This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those of the USA, UK, France, Italy, India and Japan - the book's contributors are all leading scholars and practitioners in the field. They engage, sometimes provocatively, with numerous stimulating aspects of the history, theory and practice of film music in a series of lively discussions which will appeal as much to newcomers to this fascinating subject as to seasoned film music aficionados. Innovative research and fresh interpretative perspectives are offered alongside practice-based accounts of the film composer's distinctive art, with examples cited from genres as contrasting as animation, the screen musical, film noir, Hollywood melodrama, the pop music and jazz film, documentary, period drama, horror, science fiction and the Western.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jan 2017).
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Part one : Making film music.
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Evolving practices for film music and sound, 1925-1935 /
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"Pictures that talk and sing" : sound history and technology /
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The composer and the studio : Korngold and Warner Bros. /
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Can't buy me love? : economic imperatives and artistic achievements in the British pop-music film /
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"A film's first audience" : the composer's role in film and television /
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Part two : Approaching film music.
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Film-music theory /
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Studying film scores : working in archives and with living composers /
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Returning to Casablanca /
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Parental guidance advised? : mash-ups and mating penguins in Happy feet /
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Materializing film music /
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Part three : Genre and idiom.
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Film noir and music /
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Another other history of jazz in the movies /
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Horror and science fiction /
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The Western /
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The music of screen musicals /
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"Britannia-The musical" : scores, songs and soundtracks in British animation /
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Part four : Music in world cinemas.
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Leone, Morricone and the Italian way to Revisionist Westerns /
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Music, noise and silence in the late cinema of Jean-Luc Godard / $r Danae Stefanou --
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Hans Werner Henze and The lost honour of Katharina Blum /
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Welcome to Kollywood : Tamil film music and popular culture in South India /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-09451-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-47649-6
Language:
English
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