Overtones and Undertones : Reading Film Music / / Royal S. Brown

• Autore: Brown Royal S.
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.54209
• Soggetto topico: Motion picture music - History and criticism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Narrative/Film/Music -- 2 Actions/Interactions: "Classical" Music -- 3 Actions/Interactions: Historical Overview -- 4 Actions/Interactions: The Source Beyond the Source -- 5 Styles and Interactions: Beyond the Diegesis -- 6 Herrmann, Hitchcock, and the Music of the Irrational -- 7 New Styles, New Genres, New Interactions -- 8 Music as Image as Music: A Postmodern Perspective -- A Brief (Postmodern) Conclusion -- Interviews -- Appendix: How to Hear a Movie: An Outline -- Notes -- Discography -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Royal S. Brown invites readers not only to "hear" the film score, but to understand it in relation to what they "see." Unlike earlier books, which offered historical, technical, and sociopolitical analyses, Overtones and Undertones draws on film, music, and narrative theory to provide the first comprehensive aesthetics of film music. Focusing on how the film/score interaction influences our response to cinematic situations, Brown traces the history of film music from its beginnings, covering both American and European cinema. At the heart of his book are close readings of several of the best film/score interactions, including Psycho, Laura, The Sea Hawk, Double Indemnity, and Pierrot le Fou. In revealing interviews with Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rósza, Henry Mancini, and others, Brown also allows the composers to speak for themselves. A complete discography and bibliography conclude the volume.
• Titolo autorizzato: Overtones and Undertones
• ISBN: 0-585-26166-0; 0-520-91477-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248237303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno