ISBN:
9781783202096
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9781783202102
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
,
illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Parallel Title:
Print version Music and Levels of Narration in Film
Keywords:
Motion picture music
;
Motion pictures and music
;
Motion pictures and music
;
Motion picture music
;
Filmmusik
Abstract:
This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological concepts in film music studies, and tries to (cautiously) systematize them, and to expand and refine them with reference to ideas from general narratology and film narratology (including contributions from German-language literature less widely known in Anglophone scholarship). The book goes beyond the current focus of film music studies on the distinction between diegetic and nondiegetic music (music understood to be or not to be part of the storyworld of a film), and takes into account different levels of narration: from the extrafictional to ?focalizations? of subjectivity, and music?s many and complex movements between them
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I: Introduction: Film Music Narratology -- i. Laughing with film theory -- ii. Film/music/narratology -- The plan of the book -- A note on the choice of films -- A note on â?the viewerâ? -- iii. Principles of pertinence -- Chapter II: The Conceptual Toolkit: Music and Levels of Narration -- i. Fictional worlds and the filmic universe -- ii. The â?historical authorâ?: extrafictionality and the title sequence -- iii. Extrafictional narration and audience address -- Iv. Nondiegetic and diegetic music -- a. Narratology, the diegesis and music â? some considerations -- b. Nondiegetic music and narrative agency -- Music as voice or as emanation -- Nondiegetic music, diegetic control -- Would-be-diegetic music -- c. Diegetic music: storyworld attachment and narrative agency -- Modes of storyworld attachment -- Diegetic music and narrative agency -- d. Diegetic commentary and the implied author -- e. Diegetic music: further options -- F. Transitions, transgressions and transcendence: Displaced diegetic music, supradiegetic music and other steps across the border -- v. Music on my mind: Metadiegetic narration and focalization -- Chapter III: Breaking into Song? Hollywood Musicals (and After) -- i. Supradiegesis -- ii. Superabundance: Top Hat and the 1930s -- iii. The classical style: Night and Day, An American in Paris, Singinâ? in the Rain -- iv. Transcendence lost and regained: The aftermath of the classical style -- v. The next-to-last song: Dancer in the Dark (and The Sound of Music) -- Chapter IV: Things That Go Bump in the Mind: Horror Films -- i. Of implied authors and implicit contracts: Six little bits of theory -- ii. â? and thirteen examples -- Chapter V: Beyond the Moment: Long-range Musical Strategies -- i. Music and memory in Once Upon a Time in America -- a. Precursor 1: For a Few Dollars More -- b. Precursor 2: Once Upon a Time in the West -- c. Precursor 3: Duck, You Sucker! -- d. â?Most melancholic of filmsâ? â? Once Upon a Time in America -- e. Once Upon a Time in America â? Three musical themes -- F. â?I say it here and I deny it hereâ?: Conclusions -- ii. Lifeâ?s troubled bubble broken: Musical metalepses in The Truman Show -- a. True life or false -- b. Pre-existing music and the world of Seahaven -- c. Nondiegetic music and levels of narration -- d. Music on the level of the film (or not?) -- iii. Far from Heaven, Breakfast at Tiffanyâ?s, Hollywood melodrama and the retrospective prolepsis -- a. Present film -- b. Dancing to the music of time: Far from Heaven -- c. Urban pastoral: Breakfast at Tiffanyâ?s
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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In English
URL:
View this content on Open Research Library
URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
URL:
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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