James Wierzbicki

Film Music

A History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances.

The book's four large parts are given over to Music and the "Silent" Film (1894--1927), Music and the Early Sound Film (1895--1933), Music in the "Classical-Style" Hollywood Film (1933--1960), and Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958--2008). Whereas most treatments of the subject are simply chronicles of "great film scores" and their composers, this book offers a genuine history of film music in terms of societal changes and technological and economic developments within the film industry. Instead of celebrating film-music masterpieces, it deals-logically and thoroughly-with the complex 'machine' whose smooth running allowed those occasional masterpieces to happen and whose periodic adjustments prompted the large-scale twists and turns in film music's path.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 265mm x 187mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 770g
• ISBN-13: 9780415991988
• ISBN-10: 0415991986
• Artikelnr.: 25684383

Autorenporträt

James Wierzbicki is a musicologist who teaches at the University of Michigan and serves as executive editor of the American Musicological Society's Music of the United States of America series of scholarly editions. His current research focuses on twentieth-century music in general and film music and electronic music in particular.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction Part One: Music and the "Silent" Film (1894-1927) 2. Origins, 1894-1905 3. The Nickelodeon, 1905-1915 4. Feature Films, 1915-1927 Part Two: Music and the Early Sound Film (1894-1933) 5. The Long Advent of Sound, 1894-1926 6. Vitaphone and Movietone, 1926-8 7. Hollywood's Early Sound Films, 1928-33 Part Three: Music in the "Classic-Style" Hollywood Film (1933-60) 8. The "Golden Age" of Film Music, 1933-49 9. Postwar Innovations and the Struggle for Survival, 1949-58 Part Four: Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958-2008) 10. A "New Wave" of Film Music, 1958-78 11. Eclecticism, 1978-2001 12. Epilogue, 2001-8 Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Preface 1. Introduction Part One: Music and the "Silent" Film (1894
1927) 2. Origins, 1894
1905 3. The Nickelodeon, 1905
1915 4. Feature Films, 1915
1927 Part Two: Music and the Early Sound Film (1894
1933) 5. The Long Advent of Sound, 1894
1926 6. Vitaphone and Movietone, 1926
8 7. Hollywood's Early Sound Films, 1928
33 Part Three: Music in the "Classic
Style" Hollywood Film (1933
60) 8. The "Golden Age" of Film Music, 1933
49 9. Postwar Innovations and the Struggle for Survival, 1949
58 Part Four: Film Music in the Post
Classic Period (1958
2008) 10. A "New Wave" of Film Music, 1958
78 11. Eclecticism, 1978
2001 12. Epilogue, 2001
8 Notes. Bibliography. Index