Download or read book Mythologies du film musical written by Jane Feuer and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The French Film Musical written by Phil Powrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical. The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.
Download or read book The French Film Musical written by Phil Powrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical. The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre's origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.
Download or read book The Greek Film Musical written by Lydia Papadimitriou and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-11-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek film musical was the most popular film genre in Greece in the 1960s. The songs became instant hits, the dances were performed at parties, and the fashions were imitated by people of all ages. Challenging assumptions that the Greek film musical was a culturally lacking imitation of Hollywood, this work examines the genre as a cinematic and historical phenomenon that condensed key social and cultural concerns of its time, and contributed to the development of a national popular culture in the light of the rapid Americanization of postwar Greece. During two decades characterized by affluence and upward mobility in Greek society, the musical expressed and reinforced the optimism of the times while capturing the tensions and contradictions that emerged as a result of rapid social changes. Beginning with an introduction to modern Greece and cultural identity, the book locates the genre in its historical context and argues that it consists of different layers of cultural appropriation and transformation that redefine traditionally fixed notions of identity. Old Greek cinema is examined, the Greek musical is defined, and a number of key films are analyzed with particular emphasis on the style and structure of the musical numbers. The work concludes with a filmography of Greek musicals; lists of the annual outputs of the production companies Finos Films, Karagiannis-Karatzopoulos, Klak Films, and Damaskinos Michailidis; a glossary; and bibliographies in English, Greek, and French.
Download or read book La musique de film written by Gilles Mouëllic and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des accompagnements en direct sur les pianos des salles du muet aux sons d'aujourd'hui mêlant les compositions symphoniques, les compilations de musiques contemporaines, les chansons populaires et les sons électroniques, l'histoire du cinéma est aussi une histoire de musiques. Avec l'arrivée du parlant, et la naissance de la profession de compositeur de cinéma, la possibilité s'offre enfin aux cinéastes de contrôler la musique de leurs films. Si, à Hollywood, Max Steiner impose un " standard " nourri de romantisme européen, les grands cinéastes, en collaboration avec les musiciens, inventent d'autres rapports entre la musique et les images. De Jean Renoir à David Lynch, de Maurice Jaubert à Danny Elfman, compositeurs d'images et compositeurs de sons se retrouvent pour créer ensemble une œuvre unique : le film. Hauteur donne les repères historiques nécessaires à une bonne compréhension de l'évolution des rapports entre la musique et le film, mais il propose également des analyses qui éclairent le rôle joué par la musique dans la perception des images. Ces analyses, complétées par des témoignages, des textes théoriques et des documents, concernent de nombreux cinéastes parmi lesquels Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard ou Quentin Tarantino.
Download or read book Hollywood musicals written by Ken Bloom and published by Gremese International. This book was released on 2012 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hollywood Musicals" rend hommage aux 100 comédies musicales américaines les plus populaires et les plus aimées de tous les temps. De "My Fair Lady" au "Magicien d'Oz", en passant par "High School Musical" et "Moulin Rouge", ce superbe ouvrage propose pour chaque film une fiche complète et détaillée qui comprend la trame de l'histoire, la distribution, la liste des chansons, les détails de la production, mais également des anecdotes sur les coulisses et des citations mémorables. Les splendides photos en couleurs et en noir et blanc, clichés rares, photos de tournage et affiches originales, viennent agréablement enrichir ce très bel ouvrage. Il dresse également le portrait de dizaines de compositeurs, auteurs, interprètes, et décorateurs entre autres qui ont contribué aux films. Des chapitres spéciaux illustrés, comme "Comédies musicales country", "Films musicaux de série B", ou encore "Les pires comédies musicales", insérés tout au long du livre, en complètent l'extraordinaire richesse.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies written by David Neumeyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies gathers two dozen original essays that chart the history and current state of interdisciplinary scholarship on music in audiovisual media, focusing on four areas: history, genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation.
Download or read book Musiques de films written by Alexandre Raveleau and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deux notes suffisent parfois pour suggérer l'angoisse... Il n'est pas rare non plus que des trompettes se mêlent aux vaisseaux spatiaux dans le vide sidéral d'une galaxie lointaine... L'histoire de la musique de film a débuté dès l'apparition du cinéma. Même muet, il a toujours été sonore ! Comment est née la musique de Star Wars ? Quels blockbusters ont permis à Hans Zimmer d'imposer sa marque de fabrique à Hollywood ? Qui a composé la première partition originale pour le cinéma ? Combien de thèmes a conçu Ennio Morricone durant sa carrière ? Comment Howard Shore a-t-il écrit Le Seigneur des anneaux ? Qui est l'auteur du thème de James Bond ? Des origines jusqu'à l'Age d'or des studios hollywoodiens, de la Nouvelle Vague aux premières expériences électroniques, "Musiques de films, une autre histoire du cinéma" raconte plus de cent-vingt ans de mariage dans les salles obscures, avec (par ordre d'apparition) Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Maurice Jaubert, Alfred Newman, Georges Auric, Miklós Rózsa, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre, Michel Legrand, Vladimir Cosma, Nino Rota, Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Shifrin, John Barry, John Williams, Vangelis, James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Eric Serra, Michael Kamen, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, Alexandre Desplat et Michael Giacchino parmi les rôles principaux. Alexandre Raveleau
Download or read book Film An International Bibliography written by Malte Hagener and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.
Download or read book Film Music in the Sound Era written by Jonathan Rhodes Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927–2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the industry. A complete index is included in each volume.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era written by Jeremy Barham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films (the late 1920s to the 1940s). Moving beyond the traditional focus on Hollywood, this Companion considers the vast range of cinema and music created in often-overlooked regions throughout the rest of the world, providing crucial global context to film music history. An extensive editorial Introduction and 50 chapters from an array of international experts connect the music and sound of these films to regional and transnational issues—culturally, historically, and aesthetically—across five parts: Western Europe and Scandinavia Central and Eastern Europe North Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and Australasia Latin America Soviet Russia Filling a major gap in the literature, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era offers an essential reference for scholars of music, film studies, and cultural history.
Download or read book Cinema Genre written by Raphaëlle Moine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre – or 'type' – is a core concept in both film production and the history of film. Genres play a key role in how moviegoers perceive and rate films, and is likely to determine a film's production values and costs. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the western, drama, musical comedy, and film noir) as well as some more contemporary examples from European or Asian cinema that are so often neglected by other studies in the field. How do we characterize genre and what are its various functions? In what ways does genre give a film its identity? How do genres emerge? What is the cultural significance of genre and how does it circulate within and across national boundaries? Informative and user-friendly, Moine’s book is accessible to general readers and adapts easily to a wide range of teaching approaches.
Download or read book French Film Theory and Criticism Volume 1 written by Richard Abel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of André Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Music written by New York Public Library. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Film Music written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
Download or read book Monstrous Opera written by Charles Dill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public's expectations of his music. Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and with the public. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of Rameau as a musical innovator. In his compositions, Rameau tried to highlight music's potential for dramatic meanings. But his listeners, who understood lyric tragedy to be a poetic rather than musical genre, were generally frustrated by these attempts. In fact, some described Rameau's music as monstrous--using an image of deformity to represent the failure of reason and communication. Dill shows how Rameau answered his critics with rational, theoretical arguments about the role of music in lyric tragedy. At the same time, however, the composer sought to placate his audiences by substantially revising his musical texts in later performances, sometimes abandoning his most creative ideas. Monstrous Opera illuminates the complexity of Rameau's vision, revealing not only the tensions within the music but also the conflicting desires that drove the man--himself caricatured by his contemporaries as a monster. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
