Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema

Hailed as a leading innovator of visual montage, unique storytelling style, and ground-breaking cinematography, Jean-Luc Godard is a prominent pioneer in sculpting complex soundtracks altering the familiar relationship between sound and image, but his achievements in sound have been largely overlooked. Such a lacuna in the extensive research on Godard's work is unfortunate, as Godard's lifelong preoccupation of exploring self-reflexively all aspects of filmmaking particularly affects film music. With the novel approach of metafilm music, extrapolated from Jean-Luc Godard's oeuvre, this book not only closes up a crucial gap in Godard research, but also offers detailed analyses of the music as metafilm music in Contempt, Alphaville, Band of Outsiders, Pierrot le fou, First Name: Carmen, Histoire(s) du cinema, among other films and video productions. The innovative scholarly concept of metafilm music, enriching the burgeoning field of music in audio-visual media, describes how Godard thinks about film music with film music. This book thus provides a thorough examination of Godard's self-reflexive approach to film music which has resulted in a lifelong creation of multi-layered soundtracks pushing the envelope of film music and sound to the limit.

Product details

• Authors: Baumgartner , Michael Baumgartner, Michael (Associate Professor of Music Baumgartner, Baumgartner Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780190497156
• ISBN: 978-0-19-049715-6
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 245 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Oxford Music/Media Series; Oxford Music / Media; Oxford Music/Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Media Studies, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film production: technical & background skills, Film Theory & Criticism, Electronic Music, Music of film and stage, Film history, theory or criticism, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills