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Book Intersecting Film  Music  and Queerness

Download or read book Intersecting Film Music and Queerness written by Jack Curtis Dubowsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to queerness that questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures, binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is retrogressive in cinema. Examined films include Bride of Frankenstein, Louisiana Story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Blazing Saddles, Edward Scissorhands, Brokeback Mountain, Boys Don't Cry, Transamerica, Thelma & Louise, Go Fish and The Living End, with special attention given to films that subvert or complicate genre. Music is analyzed with concern for composition, intertextual references, absolute musical structures, song lyrics, recording, arrangement, and performance issues. This multidisciplinary work, featuring groundbreaking research, analysis, and theory, offers new close readings and a model for future scholarship.

Book Love and Death in the American Novel

Download or read book Love and Death in the American Novel written by Leslie A. Fiedler and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

Book The Gothic Imagination

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Bayer-Berenbaum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Gothic Imagination written by Linda Bayer-Berenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the connection between Gothic literature and art by analyzing the plot patterns, characters, and settings in Gothic stories and the construction and motifs of Gothic art from a stylistic, historical, and psychological approach.

Book Literature as System

Download or read book Literature as System written by Claudio Guillen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillén proposes a structural approach to literary history. Originally published in 1971. 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.

Book Duty and Desire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Aidan
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2006-10-03
  • ISBN : 0743298373
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Duty and Desire written by Pamela Aidan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ³There was little danger of encountering the Bennet sisters ever again.² Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about the mysterious and handsome hero, Mr. Darcy. And so the question has long remained: Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy? Pamela Aidan's trilogy finally answers that long-standing question, creating a rich parallel story that follows Darcy as he meets and falls in love with Elizabeth Bennet. Duty and Desire, the second book in the trilogy, covers the "silent time" of Austen's novel, revealing Darcy's private struggle to overcome his attraction to Elizabeth while fulfilling his roles as landlord, master, brother, and friend. When Darcy pays a visit to an old classmate in Oxford in an attempt to shake Elizabeth from his mind, he is set upon by husband-hunting society ladies and ne'er-do-well friends from his university days, all with designs on him -- some for good and some for ill. He and his sartorial genius of a valet, Fletcher, must match wits with them all, but especially with the curious Lady Sylvanie. Irresistibly authentic and entertaining, Duty and Desire remains true to the spirit and events of Pride and Prejudice while incorporating fascinating new characters, and is sure to dazzle Austen fans and newcomers alike.

Book Form Problems of the Gothic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wilhelm Worringer
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-26
  • ISBN : 9781015596535
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Form Problems of the Gothic written by Wilhelm Worringer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Briefings  Poems Small and Easy

Download or read book Briefings Poems Small and Easy written by A. R. Ammons and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1971-03-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefings brings together more than eighty short lyrics that, as Harold Bloom writes, "maintain an utterly consistent purity of detached yet radiant vision." Bloom continues, "There are other American poets since Stevens who have composed a handful of memorable poems, but only Ammons has begun to show us a whole poetic world. More than his contemporaries, he has perfected a voice that, to cite Emerson, is 'ready to render an image of every created thing.'" David Kalstone says, "The poems are, by and large, tough or wry meditations, striking out into strange landscapes, dreams or nightmares, which are seen with entire clarity, no blurring, as if this were the only way the mind could be unwound on the page. The book forms a journal of mental states, each poem finding a form and a scene for a very exact mental encounter of discovery. . . . 'Small and Easy' is the way everything is finally made to seem, like the rarest dancing, in which briefly and freshly the dancer shows us what space is like by showing how much he can possess."

Book Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95

Download or read book Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95 written by Nell B. Dale and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2000 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming and Problem Solving with Ada 95 provides a solid introduction to programming while introducing the capabilities of Ada 95 and its syntax without overwhelming the student. The book focuses on the development of good programming habits. This text offers superior pedagogy that has long defined computer science education, including problem solving case studies, testing and debugging sections, quick checks, exam preparation, programming warm-up exercises, and programming problems. The extensive coverage of material in such a student-friendly resource means that more rigor, more theory, greater use of abstraction and modeling, and the earlier application of software engineering principles can be employed.

Book The Musicality of Narrative Film

Download or read book The Musicality of Narrative Film written by D. Kulezic-Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without music.

Book Arts   Humanities Citation Index

Download or read book Arts Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Book Music in Cinema

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Chion
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-12
  • ISBN : 0231552858
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Music in Cinema written by Michel Chion and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other. The first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second section addresses the theoretical implications of the crossover between art forms. Chion discusses a vast variety of films across eras, genres, and continents, embracing all the different genres of music that filmmakers have used to tell their stories. Beginning with live accompaniment of silent films in early movie houses, the book analyzes Al Jolson’s performance in The Jazz Singer, the zither in The Third Man, Godard’s patchwork sound editing, the synthesizer welcoming the flying saucer in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Kinshasa orchestra in Felicité, among many more. Chion considers both original scores and incorporation of preexisting works, including the use and reuse of particular composers across cinematic traditions, the introduction of popular music such as jazz and rock, and directors’ attraction to atonal and dissonant music as well as musique concrète, of which he is a composer. Wide-ranging and original, Music in Cinema offers a welcoming overview for students and general readers as well as refreshingly new and valuable perspectives for film scholars.

Book On the Track

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Karlin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 1135948038
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book On the Track written by Fred Karlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors cover everything from timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's vision with the needs of the film.

Book Film Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roy M. Prendergast
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780393308747
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Film Music written by Roy M. Prendergast and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expanded, updated, and revised edition of Film Music brings together the experience and insights of the professional film music editor with the scholarship and concerns of the film critic and historian. In this pioneering work, film music--from its beginnings to the present day--is analyzed both as composition and as an integral element of cinematic expression. Beginning with an extensive historical overview, the author recreates the process by which film music composers developed their own forms out of typical screen action. The techniques and achievements of filmmakers from the silent and early sound film eras to the 1990s are examined, including the unique demands of music for the rapidly changing images of cartoons and animated films. A new chapter about music for television has been added to the very informative discussion of techniques for synchronizing music to picture. And the latest technological advances are described in an entirely new section dealing with contemporary methods and tools, including video post-production, the advent of digital audio, and the pervasive influence of the music synthesizer. Replete with music examples drawn from actual film scores, this comprehensive study concludes with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography of related reference works.

Book Erno Rapee s Encyclopaedia of Music for Pictures

Download or read book Erno Rapee s Encyclopaedia of Music for Pictures written by Erno Rapée and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A list of some 10,000 pieces (titles, composers, and publishers) organized by theme; with brief introductory discussion on putting together an orchestra, organizing a music library, and how to approach compiling film scores.

Book The Gothic

Download or read book The Gothic written by Paul Frankl and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anarchy After Leftism

Download or read book Anarchy After Leftism written by Bob Black and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reply to, and an assault on, Murray Bookchin's essay "Social Anarchism Or Lifestyle Anarchism", Bookchin himself, Bookchinism, and so called "anarcho-leftism". A brilliant, incisive - and often humoristic - essay, by one of the most prominent contemporary anarchist writter.

Book The Sounds of Silent Films

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claus Tieber
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-09-30
  • ISBN : 9781137410719
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Sounds of Silent Films written by Claus Tieber and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.