Popular Music and Film

by Ian Inglis (Editor)

Overview

The growing presence of popular music in film is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary research in film studies. The changing roles and functions that such music performs, the variety of ways in which it provides narrative, aesthetic and commercial opportunities, and the consequences of its increasing displacement of the traditional film score are among the most significant developments in recent cinema practice. Written by an international group of academics and researchers, the new essays in this volume seek to explore these issues and to locate them within their appropriate creative and organizational contexts. Individually, the chapter-by-chapter focus on specific topics allows for close examination of particular debates; collectively, the book's overall analysis points to important changes in the production and consumption of both film and music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903364710
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/24/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ian Inglis is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Northumbria.

Table of Contents

	Notes on contributors	vii
	Introduction: Popular Music and Film	1
1	Score vs. Song: Art, Commerce, and the H Factor in Film and Television music	8
2	Music and the Body in Dance Film	22
3	The Sting in the Tale	39
4	The Music is the Message: The Day Jimi Hendrix Burned his Guitar--Film, Musical Instrument, and Performance as Music Media	60
5	The Act You've Known for All These Years: Telling the Tale of The Beatles	77
6	The Sound of a New Film Form	91
7	Case Study 1: Sliding Doors and Topless Women Talk About Their Lives	102
8	Ridiculous Infantile Acrobatics, or Why They Never Made Any Rock'n'roll Movies in Finland	117
9	Constructing the Future Through Music of the Past: The Software in Hardware	131
10	'Music Inspired By...': The Curious Case of the Missing Soundtrack	148
11	Case Study 2: The Big Chill	162
12	Triumphant Black Pop Divas on the Wide Screen: Lady Sings The Blues and Tina: What's Love Got To Do With It	178
	Bibliography	194
	Index	202