British Film Music and Film Musicals

SUMARIO. Acknowledgements // Introduction // British Film Music / Wicked Sounds and Magic Melodies: Music in Gainsborough Melodrama / Did You Hear the One about the Irishman? Sound and Music, Forging Ethnicity in Odd Man Out (1946) / Experimenting with Film Scores, 1967-1970 / Pop Music Culture, Synergy and Songs in Films: Hardware (1990) and Trainspotting (1996) / History of British Film Musicals / Stage to Screen: Whatever Happened to the British Musical Adaptation? / The Perpetual Busman's Holiday: Sir Cliff Richard and the British Pop Musical / The Musical Revolution: The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night / White Labels and Black Imports: Music, Assimilation and Commerce in Absolute Beginners (1985) // Notes // Index,