Lau Sounds Like Helicopters

Classical Music in Modernist Cinema
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7632-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lau, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Fundamental Continuity

1. What Happens to an Apocalypse Deferred: Coppola, Herzog, and Schwarzenegger as Readers of
Wagner’s Ring

2. The Imperfect Wagnerite: Luis Buñuel and Romantic Surrealism

3. “A Film Should Be Like Music”: Stanley Kubrick and the Condition of Music

4. Too Soon, Too Late, and Still to Come: Jean-Luc Godard and the Ruins of Classical Music

5. Before a Winter’s Journey: Michael Haneke’s Critique of Film Music in The Piano Teacher

Conclusion: Modernist Cinema’s Family Tree

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Lau is Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York.