Cinema and the audiovisual imagination : music, image, sound / Robert Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Robert, author.

Series:

International library of the moving image ; 24.

International library of the moving image

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound motion pictures.

Sound in motion pictures.

Motion picture music--Analysis, appreciation.

Motion picture music.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2015.

Contents:

1 Do the Eisenstein Thing 5

The Audiovisual in Spike Lee's Do The Right Tiling (1989)

2 Double Echoes: Music and Sound in David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) 15

3 Audiovisual Irony, Terror, Ecstasy 29

David Lean, This Happy Breed (1944), Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds (1963), Werner Herzog, Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

4 Where's the Film Composer? 35

2001: A Space Odyssey Music, Image and Sound in Stanley Kubrick's (1968)

5 Filmic Choreographies: A Backward Glance 51

John and James Whitney, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Busby Berkeley

6 Maya Deren: Meshes of the Audiovisual 73

Music, Image and Sound in Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, 1959)

7 The Audiovisual Imagination Beyond the European Tradition 81

Satyajit Ray, Devi (1960), Kaneto Shindo, Onibaba (1964), Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood (1957) 81

8 Sonic Art, Digital Cinema - Chris H. Lynn, A Trilogy of Summer (2010-2012) 89

9 Two Films with Little Music 95

Fritz Lang, M (1931), Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1948)

10 The Audiovisual in Three Found Footage Films 117

Dziga Vertov, Three Songs of Lenin (1934), Bruce Cornier, Crossroads (1976), Jack Chambers, The Hart of London (1968-1970)

11 Two Audiovisual Collages 131

Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to Matthew (1964), Sergei Paradjanov, The Legend of the Surami Fortress (1984)

12 'The echo of many voices': Derek Jannan's Blue (1993) 153

13 Three Russians: The Audiovisual and the Long Take Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944), Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice (1986), Alexander Sokurov, Mother and Son (1997)

14 Intertransparency and the Leaping Elements 167

Robert Robertson and Dennis Dracup, Empedocles (1995)

15 Diary of a Music/Film 177

Robert Robertson, Oserake and The River That Walks (2002)

Oserake and The River That Walks - How is a Music/Film Made?

From the Spectacular to the Everyday - An Overview of Oserake in Progress

Audiovisual Montage: Music, Sound and Image in Oserake and The River That Walks

The Wilderness of the Imagination

Montage is Something which Begins to Happen

A Note on Silence

Foreground and Background

The "Window Lens - Lenses and Time

More on Montage, Visual and Audiovisual

Polished - The Road to Technical Perfection

A Conversation After a Visit to Picasso's Studio, 1943

The Tripod

Pause/Freeze

Energy and Imagination

Thinking about Digital Thinking

The Modulable Form.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.

ISBN:

9781780767178

178076717X

OCLC:

903595261