The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies - Rilegato

Neumeyer, David

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ISBN 10: 0195328493 ISBN 13: 9780195328493

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2014

Riassunto

The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies charts the interdisciplinary activity around music in visual media, addressing the primary areas of inquiry: history, genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation. Chapters in Part I cover the range most broadly, from the relations of music and the soundtrack to opera and film, textual representation of film sound, film music as studied by cognitive scientists, and Hanns Eisler's work as film composer and co-author of the foundational text Composing for the Films (1947). Part II addresses genre and medium with chapters focusing on cartoons and animated films, the film musical, music in arcade and early video games, and the interplay of film, music, and recording over the past half century. The chapters in Part III offer case studies in interpretation along with extended critical surveys of theoretical models of gender, sexuality, and subjectivity as they impinge on music and sound. The three chapters on analysis in Part IV are diverse: one systematically models harmonies used in recent films, a second looks at issues of music and film temporality, and a third focuses on television. Chapters on history (Part V) cover topics including musical antecedents in nineteenth-century theater, the complex issues in sychronization of music in performance of early (silent) films, international practices in early film exhibition, and the symphony orchestra in film.

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Recensione:

For those studying film, music, or film music, The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies is essential and, if you are an aspiring film composer, this is a book you absolutely cannot miss. (Ty Johnson, Film Matters)

Offers stimulating questions and music analyses. (CHOICE)

L'autore:

David Neumeyer is Marlene and Morton Meyerson Professor in Music and Professor of Music Theory in the School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books including, most recently, a textbook with James Buhler and Rob Deemer entitled Hearing the Movies (Oxford 2010).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0195328493
• ISBN 13: 9780195328493
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 704