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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785045303321

Autore

Herzog Amy

Titolo

Dreams of difference, songs of the same [[electronic resource] ] : the musical moment in film / / Amy Herzog

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8166-7058-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

781.5/42

Soggetti

Motion picture music - History and criticism

Musical films

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Illustrating music : the impossible embodiments of the jukebox film -- Dissonant refrains : Carmen on film -- En chante : music, memory, and perversity in the films of Jacques Demy -- Becoming-fluid : history, corporeality, and the musical spectacle.

Sommario/riassunto

Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt from within more linear narrative frameworks. The representational strategies found in these films are often formulaic, repeating familiar story lines and stereotypical depictions of race, gender, and class. Yet she finds the musical moment contains a powerful disruptive potential. Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same investigates the tension and the fusion of difference and repetition in films t