Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different Tune

ISBN-13: 9780367866563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 170 str.

Amanda Howell

Opis

Drawing on scholarship of popular music and the pop score as well as feminist film and media studies, Howell addresses an often neglected area of gender representation. Through her analyses of the musical construction of contemporary screen masculinity in action and other genres that share its investment in violence, she reveals the mechanisms b

Spis treści

Introduction  1. A Different Tune: Hollywood, Popular Music, and Elvis in the 1950s  2.Orchestrating Violence: Music and Masculinity in Scorsese’s Gangster Films  3. Two Worlds: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the Dual Diegesiss  4. The Power Chord Goes to War: the Bruckheimer Film, Music and Militainment  5. Queering the Road Movie Soundtrack: Gregg Araki’s The Living End  6. John Travolta, A Song and Dance Man in Action  Conclusion

O autorze

Amanda Howell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Australia.