Sounds Like Helicopters: Classical Music in Modernist Cinema

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music's original subversive energy.

Classical music masterworks have long played a key supporting role in the movies-silent films were often accompanied by a pianist or even a full orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory music-yet the complexity of this role has thus far been underappreciated. Sounds Like Helicopters corrects this oversight through close interpretations of classical music works in key moder...