The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music / edited by Laura Miranda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miranda, Laura, editor.

Series:

Routledge Music Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the interdependence and ways in which discourses of sound and vision are constructed dialogically in Spanish cinema, with contributions from leading international researchers.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Introduction: Past, Present and Future in Spanish Film Music Studies

Part I First steps in sound in the 1930s

Chapter 1 Synchronising voices and shadows: Music and the transition to sound cinema in Spain

Chapter 2 National music for the silent screen: Sound and national identity in 1920s Spanish cinema

Chapter 3 The cinematic zarzuela: Cross-media connections between theatre and film in Spain (1900-1963)

Chapter 4 Soundtracks for the Republic: Musical propaganda in documentary films during the Spanish Civil War

Chapter 5 A missing link between the cinema of the Second Spanish Republic and the first Franco period: Edgar Neville's Verbena (Madrid Carnival, 1941)

Part II Music, ideology and power in the cinema of the early years of Francoism

Chapter 6 It sings inside a sea on a map: Three periods of Latin American music in Spanish cinema (1930-1960)

Chapter 7 Music, power and violence in NO-DO: Folkloric cultures in 1940s Francoist cinema

Chapter 8 "Todos somos uno cuando del cante se trata"1: The empathizing power of the copla

Chapter 9 Fashion victims?: Women, costume design, and music in 1940s Spanish cinema

Chapter 10 Music for a plasterboard empire: Juan Quintero's scores for Spanish historical films of the 1950s

Chapter 11 Copla, melodrama and star persona in 1950s Spanish cinema: Antonio Molina and Daniel Montorio

Chapter 12 The arrival of the new Spanish cinema: The film collaborations of Isidro Maiztegui and Juan Antonio Bardem

Chapter 13 Text and context: Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez as film score

Part III New (and old) rhythms from the aperturismo of the 1960s

Chapter 14 El último cuplé?: Sara Montiel: A diva between two eras.

Chapter 15 Augusto Algueró and the cinema of "child prodigy" singers: A perfect symbiosis

Chapter 16 Buñuel is Back: Viridiana, music and religion in Spain in 19601

Chapter 17 Music in non-fiction films: New practices in Spanish documentary soundtracks in the late Francoist era

Chapter 18 The use of music in Carlos Saura's fictional work (1960-1980): Narration and esthetics

Chapter 19 The zarzuela in Spanish film of the 1960s and 1970s: From adaptation to reinterpretation

Chapter 20 Songs for a new day: Music as an aesthetic program in the cinema of Gonzalo García-Pelayo during the Spanish Transition

Part IV Musical glocalisms in democratic Spain from the late twentieth century

Chapter 21 This isn't Hollywood... it's not even close: Film composers in Spain: evolution of a profession

Chapter 22 The Generation of '89: Moving toward a new concept of the film composer in Spain. Looking back at harmony

Chapter 23 The soundtrack of the barrio in contemporary Spanish cinema: From Rumba to Latin and flamenco-trap

Chapter 24 Rumbas and the acoustic experience of marginality in cine quinqui

Chapter 25 The music of Alberto Iglesias in the films of Pedro Almodóvar: Intertextual dialogue and negotiating identities in La piel que habito (2011)

Chapter 26 The acoustic imaginary in recent Spanish cinematic music

Chapter 27 Spanish musical cinema in the 21st century: New models for new times

Chapter 28 Transmedia storytelling and musical films: A case study of the Holy Camp! phenomenon

Chapter 29 Music Winners and Losers

Index.

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ISBN:

9781040101360

1040101364

9781003174974

1003174973

9781040101322

1040101321

OCLC:

1449624647