Music in Film: Soundtracks and Synergy

Music in Film: Soundtracks and Synergy
ISBN-10
1903364655
ISBN-13
9781903364659
Category
Music
Pages
135
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Wallflower Press
Author
Pauline Reay

Description

Music in Film: Soundtracks and Synergy discusses a broad range of films - from classical Hollywood through to American independents and European art films - and offers a brief history of the development of music in film from the silent era to the present day. In particular, this book explores how music operates as a narrative device, and also emotionally and culturally. By focusing on the increasing synergy between film and music texts, it includes an extended case study of Magnolia as a film script which developed from a pop song. Emphasis is also placed on the divide between the `high culture' of the orchestral score and the `low culture' of the pop song.

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