Knight / Wojcik Soundtrack Available

Essays on Film and Popular Music
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8098-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 502 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, Arthur

Wojcik, Pamela Robertson

Weitere Mitwirkende

Altman, Rick

Barlow, Priscilla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Overture / Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik

I. Popular vs. “Serious”

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, and 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

II. Singing Stars

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

III. Music as Ethnic Marker

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

IV. African American Identities

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

V. Case Study: Porgy and Bess

It Ain’t Necessarily So That It Ain’t Necessarily So: African American 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

VI. Contemporary Compilations

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

VII. Gender and Technology

The Girl and the Phonograph; or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Associate Professor of Film, TV, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna, also published by Duke University Press.Arthur Knight is Associate Professor of American Studies and English at the College of William and Mary and the author of Dis/Integrating the Musical: African American Musical Performance and American Musical Film, 1927-1959, forthcoming from Duke.