Popular music and the moving image in eastern Europe / edited by Ewa Mazierska and Zsolt Györi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Györi, Zsolt, 1974- editor.

Mazierska, Ewa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--Europe, Eastern.

Motion picture music.

Motion pictures and music.

Popular music--Europe, Eastern.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

"Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe is the first collection to discuss the ways in which popular music has been used cinematically, from musicals to music videos to documentary film, in Eastern Europe from 1945 to the present day. It argues that during the period of state socialism, moving image was an important tool of promoting music in the respective countries and creating popular cinema. Yet despite this importance, filmmakers who specialized in musicals lacked the social prestige of leading 'auteurs' and received little critical attention. The resulting scholarly prejudice towards pop culture created a severe shortage of critical studies of the genre. With the fall of state socialism - and with it, the need for economically viable film and media industries - brought about an unprecedented upsurge of films utilizing popular music, and a greater recognition of popular cinema as a legitimate object of study. Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe fills the gap and demonstrates why the popular music-cinema interface needs to be theorized with respect to the political, ideological, and social forces invested in popular culture"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Introductions: Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe

Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire, UK) and Zsolt Gyori (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Chapter 1

1968 Leftist Utopianism in The Young Girls of Rochefort and Hot Summer

Evan Torner (University of Cincinnati, USA)

Chapter 2

Representing Modern Romania in the Musical of State Socialist Period Gabriela Filippi

(I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Romania)

Chapter 3

Worlds That Never Were: Contemporary Eastern European Musical Comedies and the Memory of Socialism

Balázs Varga (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

Chapter 4

Pop Music, Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dollybirds and Liza, the Fox Fairy

Hajnal Király (Insitute for Hungarian Literary and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Lóránd University, Hungary)

Chapter 5

When the Golden Kids Met the Bright Young Men and Women: Rebellion, Innovation and Cultural Tradition in the Czech 1960s Music Film

Jonathan Owen (Courtauld Institute of Art, UK)

Chapter 6

'Music Isn't Music, Words Aren't Words': Underground Music in the Hungarian Cinema of the New Sensibility

Zsolt Gyori

Chapter 7

Socialist Night Fever: Yugoslav Disco on Film and Television

Marko Zubak (Croatian Institute of History, Croatia)

Chapter 8

Disco Polo and Techno according to Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Ewa Mazierska

Chapter 9

Musical Variations in Karpo Godina's Alternative Cinema

Andrej Šprah (Slovenian Cinematheque, Slovenia)

Chapter 10

Polish Music Videos: Between Parochialism and Universalism

Chapter 11

'She Stole It from Beyoncé!' - Transnational Borrowing in Bulgarian Pop-Folk Music Videos and Audience Reaction to the Practice

Maya Nedyalkova (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Chapter 12

Postsocialist Social Reality in Hungarian Rap Music Videos

Anna Batori (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501337192

150133719X

9781501337185

1501337181

9781501337208

1501337203

OCLC:

1154865346