The Cambridge Companion to Film Music (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Cooke, Mervyn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half title Title page Imprints page Dedication Contents Figures Music Examples Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part One Making Film Music

1 Evolving Practices for Film Music and Sound, 1925–1935

Early History of Sound Film: Experimentation and Development (1900‒1925) Innovation, Introduction and Dispersion of Synchronized Sound Technology (1926–1932)

Vitaphone Movietone, RKO and RCA Photophone The Jazz Singer

Hollywood Adjusts to Sound Innovation and Resistance in Europe (1929‒1931) Vococentrism and the Codification of Practices (1931–1935) Conclusion: The Emergence of the New Art

2 ‘Pictures That Talk and Sing’

The Principles of Optical Recording and Projection Soundtracks on Release Prints Soundtracks at the Post-Production Stage Synchronization Time Code Music and the Processes of Production New Technology, Old Processes

3 The Composer and the Studio

Collaborative Approaches to Art Everyday Working Korngold and Warner Bros. Conclusion

4 Can’t Buy Me Love?

Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard The Beatles Psychedelia and Performance Afterlife

5 ‘A Film’s First Audience’

Part Two Approaching Film Music

6 Film-Music Theory

Theory Tangles Theories in History Chasing After Film: The Accidental Theory of Silent-Film Music Counterpoints: The Challenge of Sound Film Monument Valley: Musical Monoliths in the Desert Becoming Film Musicology: The Constitution of a Discipline Synthesis or Pluralism?

7 Studying Film Scores

Working in an Archive Working with a Living Composer Copyright and Other Considerations

8 Returning to Casablanca

Analysing the Score: The Diegetic/Nondiegetic Crossover ‘As Time Goes By … ’ The Underscore: Subjectivity and Gender An Ending and the Beginning

9 Parental Guidance Advised?

Introducing the ‘Lullaby of Antarctica’ Soft-Porn Penguins?

10 Materializing Film Music

Haptic Music Sound Affects: There Will Be Blood Incorporeality Regained: The Master Conclusions

Part Three Genre and Idiom

11 Film Noir and Music

Early Noir Scores and Orchestral Innovations Jazz and Film Noir Neo-Noir, Nostalgia and Noir to Come

12 Another Other History of Jazz in the Movies

Sissle and Blake (1923) Louis Armstrong (1933) What Price Jazz (1934) Clean Pastures (1937) Phantom Lady (1944) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and Young Man with a Horn (1950) Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1958) When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965) Save the Tiger (1973) Jerry Maguire (1996) The Terminal (2004) Whiplash (2014)

13 Horror and Science Fiction

Narrative and Musical Convergence The Shock of the New Shock, Wonder, Image and Affect Musical Strategies of Horror Functions of Popular Music The Expressivity of Sound The Voice

14 The Western

Folksong Manifest Destiny The Spaghetti Western Postmodernism and Revisionism

15 The Music of Screen Musicals

I II

16 ‘Britannia – The Musical’

Part Four Music in World Cinemas

17 Leone, Morricone and the Italian Way to Revisionist Westerns

For a Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

18 Music, Noise and Silence in the Late Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard

Musical Metaphors for Sonic Objects ‘Oh Language!’: Speech, Noise and Silencing Epilogue: ‘I Did Not Say “Look”; I Said “Listen”’

19 Hans Werner Henze and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Modernist Films – Modernist Scores Protest, Terrorism and West Germany in the 1970s Heinrich Böll’s The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Katharina Blum and New German Cinema Hans Werner Henze and Katharina Blum Conclusion

20 Tōru Takemitsu’s Collaborations with Masahiro Shinoda

Pale Flower and the Liminality of Film Noir Samurai Spy: Confronting the Absurdity of Political Violence through Parody Ballad of Orin: Shinoda’s ‘Melody in Grey’ Conclusion

21 Welcome to Kollywood

Introducing Kollywood Tamil Film Songs: A Historical Perspective From Gramophone Recordings to the Twenty-First-Century ‘Audio Launch’ Keyboard Instruments in Tamil Film Orchestras Conclusion: Creativity and Cultural Identity in Tamil Film Music

Works Cited Reference Index of Films and Television Programmes General Index Cambridge Companions to Music

Topics Composers Instruments

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