Music, sound and filmmakers : sonic style in cinema / edited by James Wierzbicki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wierzbicki, James Eugene, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Sound in motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

viii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema examines the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen brothers, Peter Greenaway, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Andrey Tarkovsky and Gus Van Sant. Significantly, the anthology includes a discussion of films administratively controlled by such famously sound-conscious producers as David O. Selznick and Val Lewton. Written by the leading film scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia, Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema will complement other volumes in Film Music coursework, or stand on its own among a body of research.

The Routledge Music and Screen Media Series offers edited collections of original essays on music in particular genres of cinema, television, videogames, and new media. These edited essay collections are written for an interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars of music and film and media studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : sonic style in cinema / James Wierzbicki

Music, sound, and silence in the films of Ingmar Bergman / Per F. Broman

Andrey Tarkovsky : the refrain of the sonic fingerprint / Elizabeth Fairweather

"It's all really happening" : sonic shaping in the films of Wes Anderson / Ben Winters

Kieslowski's musique concrète / Joseph G. Kickasola

Gus Van Sant's soundwalks and audio-visual musique concrète / Danijela Kulezic-Wilson

Blowin' in the wind : music and meaning in the Coen Brothers' films / Matthew McDonald

Sound and uncertainty in the horror films of the Lewton Unit / Michael Lee

Conducting the composer : David O. Selznick and the Hollywood film score / Nathan Platte

The Stanley Kubrick experience : music, firecrackers, disorientation, and you / Kate McQuiston

The filmmaker's contract : controlling sonic space in the films of Peter Greenaway / Ian Sapiro

The attractions of repetition : Tarantino's sonic style / Lisa Coulthard

Dream timbre : notes on Lynchian sound design / Isabella van Elferen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415898935

0415898935

9780415898942

0415898943

9780203343098

0203343093

OCLC:

724641133