Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling

ISBN-13: 9781844572106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str.

Richard Dyer

Opis

The great Italian composer Nino Rota wrote some of the loveliest and most beloved of all film music, including The Godfather trilogy, Zeffirelli's Shakespeares and Fellini's masterpieces 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita. Richard Dyer's study of Rota's life and work provides a detailed account of Rota's aesthetic and of his unique genius.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Tales of Plagiarism and Pastiche.- Nino Rota: Life, Works and Times.- Ironic Attachment.- Comedy.- Fellini.- Appendices.- Synopses.- Re-uses.- Filmography.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

Dyer, Richard
Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College, London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has been honoured by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Stars (1979), White (1997), The Culture of Queers (2002), Nino Rota (BFI, 2010) and In the Space of a Song (2012), and he is the author of BFI Film Classics on 'Se7en' (1999), Brief Encounter (2002, 2015) and La Dolce Vita (2017).