Oxford Music/Media Series – serie
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47 produkter
Composing for the Red Screen
Prokofiev and Soviet Film
Av Kevin Bartig
Häftad, 2014
846 kr
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Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arguably more people …
Acoustic Profiles
An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema
Inbunden, 2023
1065 kr
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In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse …
Acoustic Profiles
An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema
Häftad, 2023
389 kr
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In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse …
Seeing Through Music
Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Häftad, 2015
714 kr
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Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably "applied" branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of …
Unlimited Replays
Video Games and Classical Music
Inbunden, 2018
1806 kr
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Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from …
Unlimited Replays
Video Games and Classical Music
Häftad, 2018
733 kr
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Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from …
Hearing Haneke
The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur
Av Elsie Walker
Inbunden, 2018
2281 kr
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Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and charged with aggressive dialogue. The sound tracks are even more traumatic to hear than his …
Hearing Haneke
The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur
Av Elsie Walker
Häftad, 2018
569 kr
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Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and charged with aggressive dialogue. The sound tracks are even more traumatic to hear than his …
Hollywood Harmony
Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema
Av Frank Lehman
Inbunden, 2018
2234 kr
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Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology. Harmony, and especially chromaticism, is emblematic of what we commonly recognize as …
Hollywood Harmony
Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema
Av Frank Lehman
Häftad, 2018
526 kr
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Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology. Harmony, and especially chromaticism, is emblematic of what we commonly recognize as …
Through The Looking Glass
John Cage and Avant-Garde Film
Inbunden, 2019
2045 kr
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Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience for the overall aesthetic surrounding Cage's career. As the commercially dominant media form in the …
Through The Looking Glass
John Cage and Avant-Garde Film
Häftad, 2019
548 kr
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Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience for the overall aesthetic surrounding Cage's career. As the commercially dominant media form in the …
French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema
Av Hannah Lewis
Inbunden, 2018
1998 kr
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The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In …
French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema
Av Hannah Lewis
Häftad, 2018
751 kr
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The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In …
Cinesonidos
Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro
Inbunden, 2019
2045 kr
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During Mexico's silent (1896-1930) and early sound (1931-52) periods, cinema saw the development of five significant genres: the prostitute melodrama (including the cabaretera subgenre), the indigenista film (on indigenous themes or topics), the cine de añoranza porfiriana (films of Porfirian …
Cinesonidos
Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro
Häftad, 2019
568 kr
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During Mexico's silent (1896-1930) and early sound (1931-52) periods, cinema saw the development of five significant genres: the prostitute melodrama (including the cabaretera subgenre), the indigenista film (on indigenous themes or topics), the cine de añoranza porfiriana (films of Porfirian …
Sound Design is the New Score
Theory, Aesthetics, and Erotics of the Integrated Soundtrack
Inbunden, 2020
2001 kr
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The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by challenging not only the long-established hierarchical relationships between dialogue, music, and sound effects, but also the modes of perception shaped by classical soundtrack …
Sound Design is the New Score
Theory, Aesthetics, and Erotics of the Integrated Soundtrack
Häftad, 2020
673 kr
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The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by challenging not only the long-established hierarchical relationships between dialogue, music, and sound effects, but also the modes of perception shaped by classical soundtrack …
An Eye for Music
Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal
Inbunden, 2012
1375 kr
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The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now part of the contemporary …
An Eye for Music
Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal
Häftad, 2011
804 kr
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The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now part of the contemporary …
Special Sound
The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Av Louis Niebur
Inbunden, 2010
1659 kr
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Special Sound traces the fascinating creation and legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America. The BBC built a studio to provide its own avant-garde dramatic productions with experimental sounds "neither music nor …
Special Sound
The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Av Louis Niebur
Häftad, 2010
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821 kr
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Special Sound traces the fascinating creation and legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America. The BBC built a studio to provide its own avant-garde dramatic productions with experimental sounds "neither music nor …
Seeing Through Music
Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Inbunden, 2011
1234 kr
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Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of …
The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich
Av Joan Titus
Inbunden, 2016
1148 kr
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In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers. With his first score for the silent film the New Babylon (1929) and the many sound scores that followed, he was positioned to observe and participate in the changing politics of the film industry and negotiate …
Back to the Fifties
Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
Inbunden, 2015
2601 kr
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s. Breaking from the dominant wisdom that casts the trend as wholly defined by Ronald Reagan's politics …
Back to the Fifties
Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
Häftad, 2015
720 kr
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s. Breaking from the dominant wisdom that casts the trend as wholly defined by Ronald Reagan's politics …
Sounding American
Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz
Inbunden, 2014
2694 kr
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Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz tells the story of the interaction between musical form, film technology, and ideas about race, ethnicity, and the nation during the American cinema's conversion to sound. Contrary to most accepted narratives about the conversion, which tend to explain …
Sounding American
Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz
Häftad, 2014
733 kr
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Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz tells the story of the interaction between musical form, film technology, and ideas about race, ethnicity, and the nation during the American cinema's conversion to sound. Contrary to most accepted narratives about the conversion, which tend to explain …
Theories of the Soundtrack
Av James Buhler
Inbunden, 2018
2045 kr
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A theory of the soundtrack is concerned with what belongs to the soundtrack, how a soundtrack is effectively organized, how its status in a multimedia object affects the nature of the object, the tools available for its analysis, and the interpretive regime that the theory mandates for determining …
Theories of the Soundtrack
Av James Buhler
Häftad, 2018
580 kr
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A theory of the soundtrack is concerned with what belongs to the soundtrack, how a soundtrack is effectively organized, how its status in a multimedia object affects the nature of the object, the tools available for its analysis, and the interpretive regime that the theory mandates for determining …
