Popular Music and the New Auteur: Visionary Filmmakers After MTV

ISBN-13: 9780199827350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

Arved Ashby

Opis

MTV utterly changed the movies. Since music television arrived some 30 years ago, music videos have introduced filmmakers to a new creative vocabulary: speeds of events changed, and performance and mood came to dominate over traditional narrative storytelling. Popular Music and the New Auteur charts the impact of music videos on seven visionary directors: Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. These filmmakers demonstrate a fresh kind of cinematic musicality by writing against pop songs rather than against script, and allowing popular music a determining role in narrative, imagery, and style. Featuring important new theoretical work by some of the most provocative writers in the area today, Popular Music and the New Auteur will be required reading for all who study film music and sound. It will be particularly relevant for readers in popular music studies, and its intervention in the ongoing debate on auteurism will make it necessary reading in film studies.

Recenzje

Not only is the auteur not dead, but many contemporary directors' films sing in distinctive ways. Ashby's collection is timely and brilliantly focused, revealing the key musical dimension to filmmakers we thought we knew.

O autorze

Arved Ashby is Professor of Music at The Ohio State University, where he teaches courses on 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century music in contexts of cultural history, critical theory, post-Marxist aesthetics, and media and communications. He is editor of Listening to Modernism: Intention, Meaning, and the Compositional Avant-garde (Rochester, 2004) and author of Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction (California, 2010)