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Soundtrack available : essays on film and popular music / edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures and music.
- Motion picture music--History and criticism.
- Motion picture music.
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (503 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays on film soundtracks composed of popular music (rather than the composed film score) both in relation to the films, and circulating separately on record.
- Contents:
- Overture / Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
- Cinema and popular song : the lost tradition / Rick Altman
- Surreal symphonies : l'age d'or and the discreet charms of classical music / Priscilla Barlow
- "The future's not ours to see" : song, singer, labryinth in Hitchcock's The man who knew too much / Murray Pomerance
- "You think they call us plastic now
- " : the Monkees and Head / Paul B. Ramaeker
- Real men don't sing ballads : the radio crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 / Allison McCracken
- Flower of the asphalt : the chanteuse realiste in 1930s French cinema / Kelley Conway
- The embodied voice : song sequences and stardom in popular Hindi cinema / Neepa Majumdar
- Music as ethnic marker in film : the "Jewish" case / Andrew P. Killick
- Sounding the American heart : cultural politics, country music, and contemporary American film / Barbara Ching
- Crossing musical borders : the soundtrack for Touch of evil / Jill Leeper
- Documented/documentary Asians : Gurinder Chadha's I'm British but
- and the musical mediation of sonic and visual identities / Nabeel Zuberi
- Class swings : music, race, and social mobility in Broken strings / Adam Knee
- Borrowing black masculinity : the role of Johnny Hartman in The bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard
- "It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so" : African Amercan recordings of Porgy and Bess as film and cultural criticism / Arthur Knight
- "Hollywood has taken on a new color" : the Yiddish blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill
- Picturizing American cinema : Hindi film songs and the last days of genre / Corey K. Creekmur
- Popular songs and comic allusion in contemporary cinema / Jeff Smith
- The girl and the phonograph, or the vamp and the machine revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-473) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903830
- 1-282-90383-7
- 0-8223-8098-6
- OCLC:
- 508297617
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