Off key : when film and music won't work together / Kay Dickinson.
| Author/creator |
Dickinson, Kay, 1972- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | The status and the potential of film-music that doesn't work -- The motion picture you're about to see is a story of music: the migration of cinema into rock 'n' roll -- It's not only trivial, it's bad, vulgar: Ken Russell's composer biopics and the uneasy realignment of work and culture -- Troubling synthesis: the horrific sights and incompatible sounds of video nasties -- Pop stars who can't act and the limits of celebrity flexibility -- The problems of conclusion. |
| Abstract | This book offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn to post-industrialization, the book expands the ways in which the union of the film and music businesses can be understood. Moving beyond the typical understanding of film music that privileges the score, this book also incorporates analyses of rock 'n' roll movies, composer biopics, and pop singers crossing over into acting. By doing this, it provides a fuller picture of how two successful entertainment sectors have sought out synergistic strategies, ones whose alleged "failures" have much to tell about the labor practices of the creative industries, as well as our own relationship to them and to work itself. A provocative and politically-conscious look at music-image relations, this book will appeal to students and scholars of film music, cinema studies, media studies, cultural studies, and labor history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007024845 |
| ISBN | 9780195326635 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195326636 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195326642 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195326644 (alk. paper) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML2075 .D59 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |