Amanda Howell

Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action

A Different Tune

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on scholarship of popular music and the pop score as well as feminist film and media studies, Howell addresses an often neglected area of gender representation. Through her analyses of the musical construction of contemporary screen masculinity in action and other genres that share its investment in violence, she reveals the mechanisms b

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780367866563
• ISBN-10: 0367866560
• Artikelnr.: 58482381

Autorenporträt

Amanda Howell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. A Different Tune: Hollywood, Popular Music, and Elvis in
the 1950s 2.Orchestrating Violence: Music and Masculinity in Scorsese's
Gangster Films 3. Two Worlds: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the
Dual Diegesiss 4. The Power Chord Goes to War: the Bruckheimer Film, Music
and Militainment 5. Queering the Road Movie Soundtrack: Gregg Araki's The
Living End 6. John Travolta, A Song and Dance Man in Action Conclusion