Dreams of difference, songs of the same : the musical moment in film / Amy Herzog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzog, Amy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Musical films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt from within more linear narrative frameworks. The representational strategies found in these films are often formulaic, repeating familiar story lines and stereotypical depictions of race, gender, and class. Yet she finds the musical moment contains a powerful disruptive potential. Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same investigates the tension and the fusion of difference and repetition in films t

Contents:

Illustrating music : the impossible embodiments of the jukebox film

Dissonant refrains : Carmen on film

En chante : music, memory, and perversity in the films of Jacques Demy

Becoming-fluid : history, corporeality, and the musical spectacle.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7058-7

OCLC:

652654516