Movie Music : The Film Reader

SUMARIO. Part One: The Meanings of the Film Score. / Introduction. / 1. The Language of Music. A Brief Analysis of Vertigo ; Kathryn Kalinak. / 2. Prejudices and Bad Habits ; Theodor Adorno and Hans Eisler. / 3. Why Music? The Sound Film and Its Spectator ; Claudia Gorbman. / 4. Reforming Jackass Music: The Problematic Aesthetics of Early American Film Music Accompaniment; Tim Anderson // Part Two: The Place of the Song. / Introduction. / 5. Banking on Film Music. Structural Interactions of the Film and Record Industries ; Jeff Smith. / 6. Cinema, Postmodernity and Authenticity ; Lawrence Grossberg. / 7. The Silences of Palace and the Anxiety of Musical Creation ; Anastasia Valassopoulos. / 8. Must You Remember this? Orchestrating the Standard Pop Song in Sleeples in Seattle ; Ian Garwood. // Part Three: The formal Politics of Music on Film. / Introduction. / 9. Whose Jazz, Whose Cinema? ; Krin Gabbard / 10. The Animation of Sound ; Philip Brophy / 11. Pop, Spedd, Teenagers and the MTV Aesthetic ; Kay Dickinson // Part Four: Crossing over into the Narrative. / Introduction. / 12. Gender, Power, and Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This is Spinal Tap ; Carl Plantinga. / 13. Manufacturing Authenticity: Imagining the Music Industry in Anglo-American Cinema, 1956-62 ; Keir Keightley. / 14. A Madonna Wanna-Be Story on Film; Lisa Lewis.