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Zusatztext Besides a strong focus on the use of audiovisual media there is also a lot of background information on how the broadcasting business, film editing and character creation used to be handled in the 1950s and 1960s. Informationen zum Autor Stanley C. Pelkey II is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Roberts Wesleyan College (Rochester, New York). A musicologist and cultural historian, he co-edited Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (University Press of Mississippi, 2005) and has published articles on British composers and musical culture as well as on American film and television music.Anthony Bushard is Associate Professor of music history in the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Most recently, he wrote Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide (Scarecrow Press, 2013) and has published articles on jazz and film music and lectured on those topics at regional, national, and international conferences and symposia. Klappentext Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age explores how the central concerns of the Fifties and Sixties -- and resulting treatment in the motion picture media -- can be understood through the music of the time. Zusammenfassung Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age explores how the central concerns of the Fifties and Sixties -- and resulting treatment in the motion picture media -- can be understood through the music of the time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgements Contributors List of Images, Tables, and Musical Examples 1. A Survey of History, Themes, and Trends Stanley C. Pelkey II 2. Music and Mimicry in Sunset Boulevard (1950) Christina Gier 3. Who's Who in Hadleyville: The Civic Voice in High Noon (1952) Anthony Bushard 4. Anxieties of Accuracy: Miklós Rózsa's Score for Quo Vadis (1951) Linda K. Schubert 5. "Whatever Will Be, Will Be": Gender Equality and the Music of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Joshua Neumann 6. Music, Maturity, and the Moral Geography in Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963) Stanley C. Pelkey II 7. The Whole Truth: Music as Truth in The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) Reba Wissner 8. "Living in Harmony"?: American Music and Individualism in The Prisoner (1967-1968) Joanna Smolko and Tim Smolko 9. The Sound of Disability: Music, the Obsessive Avenger, and Eugenics in America Meghan Schrader 10. Masculinity, Race, and the Blues in the Bizpic Cadillac Records (2008) Jesse Schlotterbeck 11. Comin' Back to the Sixties: Mobilizing Music and Performing Politics, 1988-1990 Christopher D. Stone 12. Late-Adolescence in the American Sixties: "The Twist" and the Twentysomethings in AMC's Mad Men (2007-) Samantha London 13. Musically Recreating the Fifties in Far From Heaven (2002) Mariana Whitmer 14. The Very Essence of Tragic Reality: Aaron Copland and Thomas Newman's Suburban Scoring Anthony Bushard Index ...
