Music, movies, meanings, and markets : cinemajazzamatazz / Morris B. Holbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holbrook, Morris B.

Series:

Routledge interpretive marketing research series ; 14.

Routledge interpretive marketing research series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--United States--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

United States.

Jazz in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Holbrook (emeritus, marketing, Columbia U.) combines his professional background in communication with his lifelong interest in jazz to examine the uses and meanings of jazz in motion pictures. He covers ambi-diegetic music in motion pictures; ambi-diegetic jazz and the development of character; cinemusical meanings in the crime-plus-jazz genre; art versus commerce in the young man-with-a-horn genre; ambi-diegetic , nondiegetic, and diegetic cinemusical meanings in motion pictures; god is in the details; and pivotal ambi-diegetic cinemusical moments in tragedepictions and comedepictions of jazz heroes. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction : ambi-diegetic music in motion pictures. The role of ambi-diegetic film music in the product design of Hollywood movies : macromarketing in La-La-land

Ambi-diegetic jazz and the development of character. Ambi-diegetic film music as a product-design and -placement strategy : the Crosby duets in High society (1956)

The cinemusical role of "My funny Valentine" in The fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and The talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

The plot thickens : cinemusical meanings in the crime-plus-jazz genre. Pete Kelly's blues (1955)

The Cotton Club (1984)

Kansas City (1996)

Jazz, films, and macromarketing themes : art versus commerce in the young man-with-a-horn genre. Young man with a horn (1949)

Paris blues (1961)

Mo' better blues (1990)

Ambi-diegetic, nondiegetic, and diegetic cinemusical meanings in motion pictures : commerce, art, and Brando loyalty

or

De Niro, my God, to thee. Commerce and New York, New York (1977) : he's delightful, he's delicious, he's De Niro

Art and Heart beat (1980) : stars fell on Algolagnia

Brando loyalty and The score (2001) : how do you keep the music paying?

God is in the details. His eye is on the sparrow : small-but-significant cinemusical moments in jazz film scores by Miles Davis and John Lewis

Small-but-significant implications of the man who isn't there in Sweet smell of success (1957)

Jazz biopics as tragedy and comedy : pivotal ambi-diegetic. Cinemusical moments in tragedepictions and comedepictions of jazz heroes

When bad things happen to great musicians : the troubled role of ambi-diegetic jazz in three tragedepictions of artistic genius on the silver screen

A cinemusicaliterary analysis of the American dream as represented by biographical jazz comedepictions in the golden age of Hollywood biopics : Blow, Horatio, blow; O, Jakie, O; Go, Tommy, go; No, Artie, no.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780415893138

0415893135

OCLC:

689858524