Playing to the Camera
Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema
Will be published approx. on 4. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-231-16161-9 (ISBN)
Description
Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from music education films to punk rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the 'music under' produced for movies by anonymous musicians sequestered in recording studios, on-screen 'live' performances remind us of the relation between music and the bodies that produce it. Leaving aside analysis of the film score to explore the link between moving images and musical movement as physical gesture, this volume asks why performance has so often been derided as a mere skill whereas composition is afforded the status of art, a question that opens onto a broader critique of attitudes regarding mental and physical labor in Western culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12
Weight
0 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-16161-9 (9780231161619)
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Book
approx. 08/2009
Columbia University Press
€51.38
Not yet published
Person
Thomas F. Cohen teaches in the Communication Department at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. He has published on broadcasting and film, documentary cinema, and audio technologies.