When Music Takes Over in Film

"This book reveals new insights into what happens when music is unconstrained by narrative. It is a brilliant read on what we thought we knew." - Kathryn Kalinak, Rhode Island College, USA "This collection is wonderfully rich in its range and astonishing in its revelation of the joyou...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Windisch, Anna K. (Editor), Tieber, Claus (Editor), Powrie, Phil (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture,
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. What the Musical Moment Can Do - Theoretical Approaches
  • 2. The Musical Moment, Counter-Memory, Oblivion
  • 3. The Crystal Song in four American Films from 2016 to 2018
  • 4. Seriously Funny: Comedy, Performance and the Musical Moment in Toni Erdmann (2016)
  • 5. Experiencing Romance in Musical Moments
  • Part II. How the Musical Moment was Created - Musical Numbers in Silent Cinema
  • 6. Film's First Musical Moment: The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, 1895
  • 7. The Musical Moment in three Silent Films by Jacques Feyder: Narrative Vector or Emotional Catalyst?
  • 8. A Waltz Dream: Musical Moments in Silent Operetta Films
  • 9. Silent Movie Music(ians) on Screen: How Four Films Made Period Practices Audible and Visible
  • Part III. Musical Dis/Placements - Musical Moments in Global Cinema
  • 10. Musical Numbers in Bollywood Cinema's Homeland and Diaspora
  • 11. Envisioning Chinese Musicals in the Era of Sound: Sound Cinema, the Songstress, and the Emergence of Mandarin Chinese Film Musicals, 1920s-1930s
  • 12. De-Gendering Genre: Mayuzumi Toshirō's Avant-Garde Music in Popular Cinema.-13. Music in Nollywood Films: Schools of Thought and Performance Contexts
  • 14. Redemption Songs: Musical Moments in Flora Gomes's Nha Fala (2002) and Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen Geï (2001)
  • 15. "No hay nada que celebrar": Migration, Violence, and Musical Moments in Luis Estrada's El Infierno (2010).