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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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