Music and levels of narration in film : steps across the border / Guido Heldt ; Holly Rose, cover designer ; Michael Eckhardt, copy-editor ; Jelena Stanovnik, production manager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heldt, Guido.

Contributor:

Rose, Holly.

Eckhardt, Michael.

Stanovnik, Jelena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological concepts in film music studies, and tries to (cautiously) systematize them, and to expand and refine them with reference to ideas from general narratology and film narratology (including contributions from German-language literature less widely known in Anglophone scholarship). The book goes beyond the current focus of film music studies on the distinction between diegetic and nondiegetic music (music understood to be or not to be part of the storyworld of a film), and takes into account different levels of narration: from the extrafictional to 'focalizations' of subjectivity, and music's many and complex movements between them.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter I: Introduction: Film Music Narratology""; ""i. Laughing with film theory""; ""ii. Film/music/narratology""; ""The plan of the book""; ""A note on the choice of films""; ""A note on the viewer""; ""iii. Principles of pertinence""; ""Chapter II: The Conceptual Toolkit: Music and Levels of Narration""; ""i. Fictional worlds and the filmic universe""; ""ii. The historical author: extrafictionality and the title sequence""; ""iii. Extrafictional narration and audience address""

""iv. Nondiegetic and diegetic music""""a. Narratology, the diegesis and music some considerations""; ""b. Nondiegetic music and narrative agency""; ""Music as voice or as emanation""; ""Nondiegetic music, diegetic control""; ""Would-be-diegetic music""; ""c. Diegetic music: storyworld attachment and narrative agency""; ""Modes of storyworld attachment""; ""Diegetic music and narrative agency""; ""d. Diegetic commentary and the implied author""; ""e. Diegetic music: further options""

""f. Transitions, transgressions and transcendence: Displaced diegetic music, supradiegetic music and other steps across the border""""v. Music on my mind: Metadiegetic narration and focalization""; ""Chapter III: Breaking into Song? Hollywood Musicals (and After)""; ""i. Supradiegesis""; ""ii. Superabundance: Top Hat and the 1930's""; ""iii. The classical style: Night and Day, An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain""; ""iv. Transcendence lost and regained: The aftermath of the classical style""; ""v. The next-to-last song: Dancer in the Dark (and The Sound of Music)""

""Chapter IV: Things That Go Bump in the Mind: Horror Films""""i. Of implied authors and implicit contracts: Six little bits of theory""; ""ii. and thirteen examples""; ""Chapter V: Beyond the Moment: Long-range Musical Strategies""; ""i. Music and memory in Once Upon a Time in America""; ""a. Precursor 1: For a Few Dollars More""; ""b. Precursor 2: Once Upon a Time in the West""; ""c. Precursor 3: Duck, You Sucker!""; ""d. Most melancholic of films Once Upon a Time in America""; ""e. Once Upon a Time in America Three musical themes""

""f. I say it here and I deny it here: Conclusions""""ii. Life's troubled bubble broken: Musical metalepses in The Truman Show""; ""a. True life or false""; ""b. Pre-existing music and the world of Seahaven""; ""c. Nondiegetic music and levels of narration""; ""d. Music on the level of the film (or not?)""; ""iii. Far from Heaven, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hollywood melodrama and the retrospective prolepsis""; ""a. Present film""; ""b. Dancing to the music of time: Far from Heaven""; ""c. Urban pastoral: Breakfast at Tiffany's""

""d. The language of melodrama: Antecedents in All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and indexes.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 13, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783202102

1783202106

9781783202096

1783202092

OCLC:

884544256

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access