Movie Music, the Film Reader

by Dickinson; Kay

• ISBN13: 9780415281607
• ISBN10: 0415281601
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-02-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Bringing together material from the areas of documentary, fandom and animation,Movie Music, the Film Readercomprises important writings about film music. It is divided into four sections, each with an introduction by the editor.Essays in The Meanings of the Scorelooks at instrumental scores, their production and reception, and questions the onscreen power of the nineteenth century classical genre.The Place of the Songturns to popular music, asking how the pop score supports the film narrative.Formal Politics of Music on Filmconsiders the subversive power of film music, and inCrossing Over Into the Narrative, articles address the use of musicians within film narratives, from rockumentaries to pop-stars-as-movie-stars, such as Madonna inDesperately Seeking Susan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
General Introduction	1	(12)
PART ONE: THE MEANINGS OF THE FILM SCORE	13	(48)
Introduction	13	(2)
The Language of Music: A Brief Analysis of Vertigo	15	(10)
Kathryn Kalinak
Prejudices and Bad Habits	25	(12)
Theodor Adorno
Hans Eisler
Why Music? The Sound Film and Its Spectator	37	(12)
Claudia Gorbman
Reforming ``Jackass Music'': The Problematic Aesthetics of Early American Film Music Accompaniment	49	(12)
Tim Anderson
PART TWO: THE PLACE OF THE SONG	61	(58)
Introduction	61	(2)
Banking on Film Music: Structural Interactions of the Film and Record Industries	63	(20)
Jeff Smith
Cinema, Postmodernity and Authenticity	83	(16)
Lawrence Grossberg
The Silences of the Palace and the Anxiety of Musical Creation	99	(10)
Anastasia Valassopoulos
Must You Remember This? Orchestrating the ``Standard'' Pop Song in Sleepless in Seattle	109	(10)
Ian Garwood
PART THREE: THE FORMAL POLITICS OF MUSIC ON FILM	119	(34)
Introduction	119	(2)
Whose Jazz, Whose Cinema?	121	(12)
Krin Gabbard
The Animation of Sound	133	(10)
Philip Brophy
Pop, Speed, Teenagers and the ``MTV Aesthetic''	143	(10)
Kay Dickinson
PART FOUR: CROSSING OVER INTO THE NARRATIVE	153	(38)
Introduction	153	(2)
Gender, Power, and a Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This is Spinal Tap	155	(10)
Carl Plantinga
Manufacturing Authenticity: Imagining the Music Industry in Anglo-American Cinema, 1956--62	165	(16)
Keir Keightley
A Madonna ``Wanna-Be'' Story on Film	181	(10)
Lisa Lewis
Further Reading	191	(4)
Index	195