Film music in 'minor' national cinemas / edited by Germán Gil-Curiel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gil-Curiel, Germán, editor.

Series:

Topics and issues in national cinema ; Volume 4.

Topics and issues in national cinema ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Summary:

Taking its cue from Deleuze's definition of minor cinema as one which engages in a creative act of becoming, this collection explores the multifarious ways that music has been used in the cinemas of various countries in Australasia, Africa, Latin America and even in Europe that have hitherto received little attention. The authors consider such film music with a focus on the role it has played creating, problematizing, and sometimes contesting, the nation. Film Music in 'Minor' National Cinemas addresses the relationships between film music and the national cinemas beyond Hollywood and the European countries that comprise most of the literature in the field. Broad in scope, it includes chapters that analyze the contribution of specific composers and songwriters to their national cinemas, and the way music works in films dealing with national narratives or issues; the role of music in the shaping of national stars and specific use of genres; audience reception of films on national music traditions; and the use of music in emerging digital video industries

Contents:

Introduction : modalities of music in 'minor cinema'

Jonathan P. J. Stock

Aural dialectics and revolutionary media in Cuba

Nicholas Balaisis

Sobre las olas, waltz and films : classical music and Mexican identity

Armida de la Garza

Black Orpheus

Hans Hess

Chinese identity : poetics of cinema and music in hero

Germán Gil-Curiel

'The continental melody?' 'Soldiers and Japan's imperial screen

Chikako Nagayama

Collective nostalgia and anxiety in Korean film music : Im Kwont'aek's use of P'ansori in Sop'yonje

Jooyeon Rhee

Music and the 'minor' : musical expression as oral testimony in the films of Bahman Ghobadi

Rowena Santos-Aquino

Subtle idiosyncracy : sound and music in the Australian animated short film The lost thing (2010)

Rebecca Coyle, Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward

Minor cinema and major music in New Zealand : no. 2 and Don Mcglashan

Henry Johnson

Between the text and the sub-text : a reading of selected Benin musical video-films from Nigeria

Osakue S. Omoera and Charles O. Aluede

Music and African identity in the films of Flora Gomes

Carolin Overhoff Ferreira.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501304569

1501304569

9781628921953

1628921951

OCLC:

1106557805