Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe - 1940s to 1980s

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the Berlin wall, a period when composers and directors embraced experimentation.

List of contents

Part 1: Cinematic Collaborations and the Questioning of the Auteur Style Through Music
1. Music as a Sonic Enabler: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Film Adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s Les enfants terribles
Laura Anderson
2. Palimpsest, Mediation, Déjà entendu-Effect: The Musical Dramaturgy of Federico Fellini and Nino Rota’s La dolce vita
Emilio Sala
3. Michael Nyman and the Development of an Art House Musical Aesthetic
Pwyll ap Siôn
Part 2: Music and Narration: The Meaning Beyond the Text
4. Shostakovich, Arnshtam, and the Sound of the Cinematic Soviet Heroine
Joan Titus
5. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il grido: Its Music and the Pain of Living
Roberto Calabretto
Part 3: Music as Cinematic Metaphor in a Repressed Political System
6. A Taste of Freedom Behind Closed Doors: Romanian Film Music before the Fall of Communism, 1955–85
Dominique Nasta
7. Echoes of Catastrophe: Music in Films of The Polish School
Iwona Sowińska
8. The Soundtrack of the Uncanny: Music and Repetition in Carlos Saura’s Ana y los lobos (1972) and Cría cuervos (1975)
Karen Poe Lang

About the author

Michael Baumgartner is Associate Professor of Musicology, Cleveland State University.
Ewelina Boczkowska is Professor of Musicology, Youngstown State University.

Summary

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the Berlin wall, a period when composers and directors embraced experimentation.

Product details

• Authors: Michael (Cleveland State University Baumgartner
• Assisted by: Michael Baumgartner (Editor), Baumgartner Michael (Editor), Ewelina Boczkowska (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032399089
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239908-9
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Music and Sound on the International Screen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, Theory of music & musicology, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Theory of music and musicology