Listening to the French New Wave the Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema.
Title:
Listening to the French New Wave the Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema.
Author:
McMahon, Orlene Denice.
ISBN:
9783035305883
9783034317504
9781306712491
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Series:
New Studies in European Cinema, Volume 16
New studies in European cinema ; Volume 16.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; Prologue; Part I: The Cahiers Directors; Chapter 1: Music and Cinema in Postwar Paris: A Cultural History; Chapter 2: New Wave, New Music? Film Music Collaborations on the Right Bank; Chapter 3: The French New Wave: A Musical Revolution?; Part II: The Left Bank Group; Chapter 4: Musicalising Moving Photographs: The Early Film Music of Agnès Varda; Chapter 5: Musical 'Madeleines' in the Early Cinematic Essays of Chris Marker; Chapter 6: Alain Resnais: 'Auteur Mélomane'; Epilogue; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
As perhaps the most studied film movement in cinematic history, the French New Wave has been analysed and criticised, romanticised and mythologised, raising the question of whether it is possible to write anything new about this period. Yet there are still gaps in the scholarship, and the study of music in New Wave films is one of the most striking. Listening to the French New Wave offers the first detailed study of the music and composers of French New Wave cinema, arguing for the need to re-hear and thus reassess this important period in film history. Combining an ethnographic approach with.
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