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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255061603321

Autore

Powrie Phil

Titolo

Music in Contemporary French Cinema : The Crystal-Song / / by Phil Powrie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52362-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages)

Disciplina

781.542

Soggetti

Motion pictures—European influences

Music

Motion picture acting

Motion pictures

Culture

Gender

European Cinema and TV

Screen Performance

Audio-Visual Culture

Culture and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Chapter 1 Introduction -- 2. Chapter 2 Space -- 3. Chapter 3 Gender -- 4. Chapter 4 Performance -- 5. Chapter 5 Time -- 6. Chapter 6 Hearing -- 7. Chapter 7 Seeing -- Chapter 8 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores composed scores and pre-existing music in French cinema from 1985 to 2015 so as to identify critical musical moments. It shows how heritage films construct space through music, generating what Powrie calls “third space music,” while also working to contain the strong women characters found in French heritage films through the use of leitmotifs and musical cues. He analyses fiction films in which the protagonists perform at the piano, showing how musical performance supports the performance of gender. Building on aspects of musical performance, and in particular the use of songs performed in films, Powrie uses a database of 300 films since 2010 to theorize the



intervention of music at critical moments as a “crystal-song”. Applying Roland Barthes’s concept of the “punctum” and Gille Deleuze’s concept of the “crystal-image,” Powrie establishes the importance of the crystal-song, which reconfigures time as a crystallization of past, present and future.