Music and Cinema

Name: Music and Cinema
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ISBN: 9780819564115

ISBN-10: 0819564117

ISBN-13: 9780819564115

Edition: 2000

Authors: James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, David Neumeyer

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Music and Cinema brings together leading scholars from musicology, music theory, film studies, and cultural studies to explore the importance of music in the cinematic construction of ideologies. The 15 essays include "Songlines: Alternative Journeys in Contemporary European Cinema" by Wendy Everett; "Strategies of Remembrance: Music and History in the New German Cinema" by Caryl Flinn; "Designing Women: Art Deco, the Musical, and the Female Body" by Lucy Fischer; "Kansas City Dreamin': Robert Altman's Jazz History Lesson" by Krin Gabbard; "Disciplining Josephine Baker: Gender, Race, and the Limits of Disciplinarity" by Kathryn Kalinak; "Finding Release: Storm Clouds and The Man Who Knew…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 405
Size: 5.95" wide x 8.91" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

David Neumeyer is professor of Music Theory in the School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.



Introduction



Leitmotif: New Debates and Questions


Star Wars, Music and Myth James Buhler


Richard Wagner and the Fantasy of Cinematic Unity: The Idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the History and Theoru of Film and Music Scott D. Paulin


Leitmotifs and Musical Reference in the Classical Film Score Justin London



Beyond Classical Film Music


Songlines: Alternative Journeys in Contemporary European Cinema Wendy Everett


Strategies of Remembrance: Music and History in the New German Cinema Caryl Flinn


Kansas City Dreamin': Robert Altman's Jazz History Lesson Krin Gabbard



Style and Practice in Classical Film Music


Music, Drama, Warner Brother: The Cases of Casablanca and the Maltese Falcom Martin Marks


Tonal Design and the Aesthetic of Pastiche in Herbert Stothart's Maytime Ronald Rodman


Finding Release: "Storm Clouds" and The Man Who Knew Too Much Murray Pomerance


That Money-Making "Moon River" Sound: Thematic Organization and Orchestration in the Film Music of Henry Mancini Jeff Smith



Gender, Ethnicity, Identity


Ultrasound: The Feminine in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Michelle Lekas


Designing Women : Art Deco, the Musical, and the Female Body Lucy Fischer


Disciplining Josephine Baker: Gender, Race, and the Limits of Disciplinarity Kathryn Kalinak



Methodological Possibilities


Inventing the Cinema Soundtrack: Hollywood's Multiplane Sound System Ric Altman, with McGraw Jones and Sonia Tatroe


Film Music: Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology Annabel J Cohen