Soundtrack Available
by Wojcik, Pamela Robertson; Knight, Arthur; Altman, Rick (CON); Barlow, Priscilla (CON)Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
Other versions by this Author
-
This Item Qualifies for Free Shipping!*
*Excludes marketplace orders.
List Price: $119.95
Buy New
Usually Ships in 8 - 10 Business Days.
$119.83
Rent Textbook
Select for Price
Rent Digital
$40.74*
Used Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
How Marketplace Works:
- This item is offered by an independent seller and not shipped from our warehouse
- Item details like edition and cover design may differ from our description; see seller's comments before ordering.
- Sellers much confirm and ship within two business days; otherwise, the order will be cancelled and refunded.
- Marketplace purchases cannot be returned to eCampus.com. Contact the seller directly for inquiries; if no response within two days, contact customer service.
- Additional shipping costs apply to Marketplace purchases. Review shipping costs at checkout.
Summary
""Soundtrack Available" represents a great leap forward in the analysis of film soundtracks. It is a smart, lively book that moves nicely between the detailed analysis of individual cases and broader, theoretical issues. The editors are to be commended for a collection which covers so many historical periods and national cinemas, and for staking out exciting new directions for scholarship. At the same time, this is a compelling, refreshingly jargon-free read for the non-specialist interested in film, music, or media."--Will Straw, McGill University
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Overture | |
| Popular vs. "Serious" | |
| Cinema and Popular Song: The Lost Tradition | |
| Surreal Symphonies: "L'Age d'or and the Discreet Charms of Classical Music | |
| "The Future's Not Ours to See": Song, Singer, and Labryinth in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much | |
| "You Think They Call Us Plastic Now . . . ": The Monkees and Head | |
| Singing Stars | |
| Real Men Don't Sing Ballads: The Radio Crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 | |
| Flower of the Asphalt: The Chanteuse Realiste in 1930s French Cinema | |
| The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Popular Hindi Cinema | |
| Music as Ethnic Marker | |
| Music as Ethnic Marker in Film: The "Jewish" | |
| Case | |
| Sounding the American Heart: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Contemporary American Film | |
| Crossing Musical Borders: The Soundtrack for Touch of Evil | |
| Documented/Documentary Asians: Gurinder Chadha's I'm British But . . . and the Musical Mediation of Sonic and Visual Identities | |
| African American Identities | |
| Class Swings: Music, Race, and Social Mobility in Broken Strings | |
| Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County | |
| 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 | |
| "Hollywood Has Taken On a New Color": The Yiddish Blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess | |
| Contemporary Compilations | |
| Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre | |
| Popular Songs and Comic Allusion in Contemporary Cinema | |
| Gender and Technology | |
| The Girl and the Phonograph or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited | |
| Bibliography | |
| Contributors | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.
This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.
By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.
Digital License
You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.
More details can be found here.
A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.
Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.
Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.