Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is arguably as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial and gender diversity in film has exploded and the making of musical scores has changed drastically. Hearing Film offers a critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. In the first section, A Woman Scored, Kassabian analyzes desire and agency in the music of such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Desert Hearts, Bagdad Cafe, Dirty Dancing and Thelma and...
Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is arguably as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial ...
Keeping Score is a diverse collection of essays that argues for and demonstrates the current effort to redefine the methods, goals, and scope of musical scholarship. This volume gives voice to new directions in music studies, including traditional and -new- musicology, music and psychoanalysis, music and film, popular music studies, and gay and lesbian studies. These essays speak to music study from within its own language and enter into important conversations already taking place across disciplinary boundaries throughout the academy.
Keeping Score is a diverse collection of essays that argues for and demonstrates the current effort to redefine the methods, goals, and scope of mu...
