Changing tunes : the use of pre-existing music in film / edited by Phil Powrie, Robynn Stilwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Powrie, Phil.

Stilwell, Robynn Jeananne.

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Motion picture music--Analysis, appreciation.

Physical Description:

xix, 205 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]

Contents:

Ears wide open : Kubrick's music / Claudia Gorbman

The pleasures of ambiguity : using classical music in film / Mike Cormack

The godfather part III : film, opera, and the generation of meaning / Lars Franke

High and low culture : Bizet's Carmen and the cinema / Ann Davies

Reconsidering Amadeus : Mozart as film music / Jeongwon Joe

The troll among us / Kristi A. Brown

Queer pleasures : the bolero, camp, and Almodóvar / Vanessa Knights

Music, electricity, and the 'sweet mystery of life' in Young Frankenstein / Raymond Knapp

The popular song as leitmotif in 1990s film / Ronald Rodman

The fabulous destiny of the accordion in French cinema / Phil Powrie

Vinyl communion : the record as ritual object in girls' rites-of-passage films / Robynn Stilwell

Narrating sound : the pop video in the age of the sampler / Timothy Warner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-198) and index.

Includes filmography (pages [180]-187).

ISBN:

0754651371

OCLC:

60360389