Reel Tracks
Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities
Published on 13. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-86196-658-5 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music. These include traditional composed screen music, pre-recorded music tracks, mixes of music and sound effects and various combinations of these. In response to this, film music scholars have developed new ways of understanding and analysing the role of film music in relation to genre, narrative and creative roles and inter-relations in film music scoring."Reel Tracks" provides a series of insightful analysis of recent mainstream Australian cinema. Following the editor's careful exploration of film music's relation to national cinema culture and identity, individual chapters offer stimulating and diverse accounts of music in films such as "Rabbit-Proof Fence" (2002), "Lantana" (2001), "Chopper" (2000) and "Paradise Road" (1997). The chapters in this volume also address broader themes such as the musical representation of sexuality in cinema and music's representation of regions, localities and ethnicity. "Reel Tracks" is an important contribution to both Australian film studies and the international understanding of the role of music in contemporary western cinema.
This volume is targeted to both cinema studies readers and film music students, teachers and aficionados.
This volume is targeted to both cinema studies readers and film music students, teachers and aficionados.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eastleigh
Australia
Publishing group
John Libbey & Co
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
518 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86196-658-5 (9780861966585)
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Rebecca Coyle is course coordinator of the Media Program at Southern Cross University, Lismore (Australia). She has a Cultural Studies PhD in film music and her previous publications include Screen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian Film Music. She has also published on radio, popular music and sound art and curated the 'Sound in Space' event at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1996. Her current research involves the analysis of sound, music and screen animation.
Content
Introduction: Film music mnemonics ... Australian cinema scores in the 1990s and 2000s - Rebecca Coyle I Musical identities 1. Soundscapes of surf and steel: Blackrock and Bootmen - Shane Homan; 2. New-age Ned: Scoring Irishness and masculinity in Ned Kelly - Helen O'Shea; 3. Hauntings: Soundtrack representations of Papua New Guinea in To have and to hold and In a savage land - Philip Hayward; 4. Hei-fen and musical subtexts in two Australian flims by Clara Law - Tony Mitchell; 5. Lost in music: Popular music, multiculturalism and Australian film - Jon Stratton II Musical sounds 6. Scoring: Sexuality and Australian film music, 1990-2003 - Bruce Johnson & Gaye Poole; 7. "Christ, Kid, you're a weirdo": Aural construction of subjectivity in Bad Boy Bubby - Melissa Iocco & Anna Hickey-Moody; 8. The sound of redemption in Chopper: Rediscovering ambience as affect - Mark Evans; 9. Sounds of Australia in Rabbit-proof Fence - Marjorie D. Kibby; 10. Untangling Lantana: A study of film sound production - Rebecca Coyle III Musicscapes 11. Moon music: Musical meaning in One night the moon - Kate Winchester; 12. Transcendent voices: Choral music in Paradise Road - Jude Magee; 13. Musical intertextuality in The Bank - Michael Hannan; 14. Carl Vine's score in beDevil - Catherine Summerhayes & Roger Hillman; 15. The composer as alchemist: An overview of Australian feature film scores 1994-2004 - Michael Atherton