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Film Music

By James Wierzbicki

Film Music Media & Communication

Film Music

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Film Music: A History explains the development of film music by considering large-scale aesthetic trends and structural developments alongside socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and philosophical circumstances. The book's four large parts are given over to Music and the Silent Film (1894-1927), Music and the Early Sound Film (1895-1933), Music in the Classical-Style Hollywood Film (1933-1960), and Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958-2008). Whereas most treatments of the subject are simply chronicles of great film scores and their composers, this book offers a genuine history of film music in terms of societal changes and technological and economic developments within the film industry. Instead of celebrating film-music masterpieces, it deals-logically and thoroughly-with the complex 'machine' whose smooth running allowed those occasional masterpieces to happen and whose periodic adjustments prompted the large-scale twists and turns in film music's path.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
332
Release Date:
2008-11-26
Publication Date:
2008-11-26
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415991986
ISBN13:
9780415991988
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
821 g
Height:
183 cm
Width:
260 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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