100 modern soundtracks / Philip Brophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brophy, Philip.

Series:

BFI screen guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Physical Description:

viii,262 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Other Title:

One hundred modern soundtracks

Hundred modern soundtracks

Place of Publication:

London : BFI, 2004.

Summary:

Philip Brophy's book provides a soundmap to a hundred films that engage the ears. Covering titles as diverse as Way of the Dragon and Apocalypse Now, Le Samourai and Stalker, Angel Dust and Citizen Kane, each entry outlines the film's distinctive contribution to the hitherto underexplored world of sound and music in cinema. The author guides the reader through an alternative cinema canon of the 'ear' of sonically exciting and remarkable films from across the world and their amazing diversity of purpose and effect. This guide addresses how most film criticism has underestimated the significance of the soundtrack, and details ways in which the film soundtrack is defined by the meeting of two sonic forces: film scoring and sound design. In his introduction and analysis (or more accurately 'hearing') of a hundred films, the author compels the reader to 'listen not look' and to 'think with their ears'. This provocative and absorbing guide, part of the new 'BFI Screen Guides' series, examines some of the most exciting uses of sound in popular and international cinema.

Contents:

Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988 17

American Graffiti, George Lucas, 1973 20

Angel Dust (Enjeru dasuto), Sogo Ishii, 1995 22

Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 24

Arashi ga oka (Onimaru), Yoshihige Yoshida, 1988 27

The Ballad of Narayama (Naramaya bushiko), Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958 29

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Russ Meyer, 1979 32

The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963 34

Bitter Rice (Riso amaro), Giuseppi De Santis, 1950 36

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982 38

Blood Simple, Joel Coen, 1983 42

Blue, Derek Jarman, 1993 44

Blue Steel, Kathryn Bigelow, 1990 46

Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997 49

California Split, Robert Altman, 1974 51

Carnival of Souls, Herk Harvey, 1962 53

Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976 56

Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis, 2000 58

Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, 1941 60

A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, 1971 63

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition), Steven Spielberg, 1977 65

Colors, Dennis Hopper, 1987 67

The Colour of Paradise (Rang-e khoda), Majid Majidi, 1999 70

The Colour of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova), Sergei Paradjanov, 1969 72

Contact, Robert Zemeckis, 1997 76

The Convent (O Convento), Manoel De Oliveira, 1998 78

The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 80

Crash, David Cronenberg, 1996 83

Crazy, Heddy Honigmann, 1999 85

Days of Wine and Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962 87

Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch, 1995 90

Distant Thunder (Ashani Sanket), Satyajit Ray, 1973 92

Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, 1989 94

Dr. Dolittle, Betty Thomas, 1998 97

Escape from New York, John Carpenter, 1981 99

The Exorcist, William Friedkin, 1971 101

Face/Off, John Woo, 1997 103

Fantasia

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, James Algar, 1940 106

Forbidden Planet, Fred Macleod Wilcox, 1954 108

Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon), Seijun Suzuki, 1968 110

Godzilla

King of Monsters (Kaiju o Gojira), Inoshiro Honda, 1954 113

Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese, 1990 115

Guided Muscle, Charles M. Jones, 1955 117

Gummo, Harmony Korine, 1997 119

Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie), Jean-Luc Godard, 1985 123

The Haunting, Jan De Bont, 1999 125

Heat, Michael Mann, 1995 128

Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen), Ingmar Bergman, 1968 130

House by the River, Fritz Lang, 1950 132

India Song, Marguerite Duras, 1975 135

The Innocents, Jack Clayton, 1961 138

The Insect Woman (Nippon konchuki), Shoei Imamura, 1963 140

I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman), Mier Zarchi, 1978 142

I Stand Alone (Seul contra tous), Gaspar Noe, 1998 144

Kaidan (Kwaidan), Masaki Kobayashi, 1964 146

The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983 149

Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, 1982 151

Last Year at Marienbad (L'Annee derniere a Marienbad), Alain Resnais, 1959 153

Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997 156

M, Fritz Lang, 1931 158

Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999 160

The Man Who Lies (L'Homme qui ment), Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1968 163

Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927 and 1983 165

Oedipus Rex (Edipo re), Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967 167

Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il west), Sergio Leone, 1969 170

Patty Hearst, Paul Schrader, 1988 172

The Pawnbroker, Sidney Lumet, 1965 174

The Pittsburgh Trilogy, Stan Brakhage, 1972 177

Planet of the Apes, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968 179

Playtime, Jacques Tati, 1967 181

Pride of the Marines, Delmer Daves, 1945 184

Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 186

Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002 188

Querelle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982 191

Resident Evil, Paul W. S. Anderson, 2002 193

Rosetta, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 1999 195

Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola, 1983 197

The Samurai (Le Samourai), Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967 199

Satyricon, Federico Fellini, 1969 202

Scarface, Brian De Palma, 1983 204

Scorpio Rising, Kenneth Anger, 1968 206

Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata), Pietro Germi, 1964 208

Shaft, Gordon Parks Jr, 1971 211

The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, 1980 213

Some Kind of Wonderful, Howard Deutch, 1987 215

The Spirit of the Beehive (El espiritu de la colmena), Victor Erice, 1973 218

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 220

Stand By Me, Rob Reiner, 1986 222

The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999 225

Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977 227

Sympathy for the Devil (One Plus One), Jean-Luc Godard, 1968 229

Talk Radio, Oliver Stone, 1988 232

Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese, 1976 234

Teenage Rebellion, Norman T. Herman, Richard Lester, 1967 236

Temptress Moon (Feng yue) Chen Kaige, 1996 238

Tron, Steve Lisberger, 1982 242

Vagabonde (Sans toit ni loi), Agnes Varda, 1985 244

Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983 246

Violated Angels (Okasareta hakui), Koji Wakamatsu, 1967 248

Way of the Dragon (Meng Long Guojiang), Bruce Lee, 1972 250.

ISBN:

1844570134

1844570142

OCLC:

55910424