Music and sound in documentary film / edited by Holly Rogers, University of Liverpool.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogers, Holly (Professor of music), editor.

Series:

Routledge music and screen media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Film soundtracks.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

This collection of twelve essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience's perception of reality and fiction. Exploring examples of documentary films which make use of soundtrack music from an interdisciplinary perspective, Music and Sound in Documentary Film is the first in-depth treatment on the use of music in the nonfiction film and will appeal to scholars and students working at the intersection of music, film and media studies. The Routledge Music and Screen Media Series offers edited collections of original essays on music, in particular genres of cinema, television, video games, and new media. These edited essay collections are written for an interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars of music, film, and media studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : music, sound, and the nonfiction aesthetic / Holly Rogers

Resounding city films : Vertov, Ruttmann and early experiments with documentary sound aesthetics / Carolyn Birdsall

Sounding the world : the role of music and sound in early "talking" newsreels / James Deaville

Race, war, music and the problem of one tenth of our nation (1940) / Julie Hubbert

Music, science, and educational film in post-war Britain / Thomas F. Cohen

Reinventing the documentary : the early essay film soundtracks of Chris Marker / Orlene Denice McMahon

Water music : scoring the silent world / Mervyn Cooke

Music and the aesthetics of the recorded world : time, event and meaning in feature documentary / John Corner

Irish sea power : a new version of Man of Aran (2009/1934) / K.J. Donnelly

Excavating authenticity : surveying the indie rock-doc / Jamie Sexton

More than background : ambience and sound-design in contemporary art documentary film / Marion Leonard and Robert Strachan

Sonic ethnographies : Leviathan and new materialisms in documentary / Kara Selmin and Alanna Thain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415728614

0415728614

9780415728669

0415728665

OCLC:

880689699