Anxiety muted : American film music in a suburban age / edited by Stanley C. Pelkey II and Anthony Bushard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pelkey, Stanley C., editor.

Bushard, Anthony, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--United States--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Television music--United States--History and criticism.

Television music.

Suburban life in popular culture--United States.

Suburban life in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age explores how the central concerns of the Fifties and Sixties -- and resulting treatment in the motion picture media -- can be understood through the music of the time. By focusing on soundtrack and scoring, the book demonstrates that television shows and films of the era offer a more nuanced vision of community and conformity than is usually recognized, revealing much about our own current social anxieties.

Contents:

Cover

Anxiety Muted

Copyright

Contents

Figures, Tables, and Musical Examples

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1 A Survey of History, Themes, and Trends

2 Music and Mimicry in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

3 Who's Who in Hadleyville?: The Civic Voice in High Noon (1952)

4 Anxieties of Accuracy: Miklós Rózsa's Score for Quo Vadis (1951)

5 "Whatever Will Be, Will Be": Gender Equality and the Music of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

6 Music, Maturity, and the Moral Geography in Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963)

7 The Whole Truth: Music as Truth in The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)

8 "Living in Harmony"? American Music and Individualism in The Prisoner (1967-1968)

9 The Sound of Disability: Music, the Obsessive Avenger, and Eugenics in America

10 Masculinity, Race, and the Blues in the Bizpic Cadillac Records (2008)

11 Comin' Back to the Sixties: Mobilizing Music and Performing Politics, 1988-1990

12 Late-Adolescence in the American Sixties: "The Twist" and the Twentysomethings in AMC's Mad Men (2007-)

13 Musically Recreating the Fifties in Far From Heaven (2002)

14 The Very Essence of Tragic Reality: Aaron Copland and Thomas Newman's Suburban Scoring

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-993616-1

OCLC:

891397677