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Essays on Film and Popular Music
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2001
502 pages
978-0-8223-8098-6 (ISBN)
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Essays on film soundtracks composed of popular music (rather than the composed film score) both in relation to the films, and circulating separately on record.
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12/2001
Duke University Press
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Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Associate Professor of Film, TV, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna, also published by Duke University Press.Arthur Knight is Associate Professor of American Studies and English at the College of William and Mary and the author of Dis/Integrating the Musical: African American Musical Performance and American Musical Film, 1927-1959, forthcoming from Duke.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Overture / Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
I. Popular vs. "Serious"
Cinema and Popular Song: The Lost Tradition / Rick Altman
Surreal Symphonies: "L'Age d'or and the Discreet Charms of Classical Music / Priscilla Barlow
"The Future's Not Ours to See": Song, Singer, and Labryinth in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much / Murray Pomerance
"You Think They Call Us Plastic Now. ": The Monkees and Head / Paul B. Ramaeker
II. Singing Stars
Real Men Don't Sing Ballads: The Radio Crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 / Allison McCracken
Flower of the Asphalt: The Chanteuse Realiste in 1930s French Cinema / Kelley Conway
The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Popular Hindi Cinema / Neepa Majumdar
III. Music as Ethnic Marker
Music as Ethnic Marker in Film: The "Jewish" Case / Andrew P. Killick
Sounding the American Heart: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Contemporary American Film / Barbara Ching
Crossing Musical Borders: The Soundtrack for Touch of Evil / Jill Leeper
Documented/Documentary Asians: Gurinder Chadha's I'm British But. and the Musical Mediation of Sonic and Visual Identities / Nabeel Zuberi
IV. African American Identities
Class Swings: Music, Race, and Social Mobility in Broken Strings / Adam Knee
Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard
V. Case Study: Porgy and Bess
It Ain't Necessarily So That It Ain't Necessarily So: African American Recordings of Porgy and Bess as Film and Cultural Criticism / Arthur Knight
"Hollywood Has Taken On a New Color": The Yiddish Blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill
VI. Contemporary Compilations
Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre / Corey K. Creekmur
Popular Songs and Comic Allusion in Contemporary Cinema / Jeff Smith
VII. Gender and Technology
The Girl and the Phonograph; or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Overture / Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
I. Popular vs. "Serious"
Cinema and Popular Song: The Lost Tradition / Rick Altman
Surreal Symphonies: "L'Age d'or and the Discreet Charms of Classical Music / Priscilla Barlow
"The Future's Not Ours to See": Song, Singer, and Labryinth in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much / Murray Pomerance
"You Think They Call Us Plastic Now. ": The Monkees and Head / Paul B. Ramaeker
II. Singing Stars
Real Men Don't Sing Ballads: The Radio Crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 / Allison McCracken
Flower of the Asphalt: The Chanteuse Realiste in 1930s French Cinema / Kelley Conway
The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Popular Hindi Cinema / Neepa Majumdar
III. Music as Ethnic Marker
Music as Ethnic Marker in Film: The "Jewish" Case / Andrew P. Killick
Sounding the American Heart: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Contemporary American Film / Barbara Ching
Crossing Musical Borders: The Soundtrack for Touch of Evil / Jill Leeper
Documented/Documentary Asians: Gurinder Chadha's I'm British But. and the Musical Mediation of Sonic and Visual Identities / Nabeel Zuberi
IV. African American Identities
Class Swings: Music, Race, and Social Mobility in Broken Strings / Adam Knee
Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard
V. Case Study: Porgy and Bess
It Ain't Necessarily So That It Ain't Necessarily So: African American Recordings of Porgy and Bess as Film and Cultural Criticism / Arthur Knight
"Hollywood Has Taken On a New Color": The Yiddish Blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill
VI. Contemporary Compilations
Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre / Corey K. Creekmur
Popular Songs and Comic Allusion in Contemporary Cinema / Jeff Smith
VII. Gender and Technology
The Girl and the Phonograph; or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
