Franz Waxman: Between Film Music and the Concert Hall

Description

Franz Waxman (1906-1967) was a jazz musician, orchestrator, film composer, concert organiser, conductor and a composer of concert and opera works. It was only after his emigration to the United States in the early 1930s that Waxman built himself a career in the concert hall – before this point he was exclusively working for the film and entertainment industries. Ingeborg Zechner explores Waxman’s... Read more

1. Franz Waxman: another émigré who made it in Hollywood?, 2. Migration mechanisms in international film industry networks, 3. The Los Angeles Music Festival (1947–1966) in contemporary institutional, aesthetic, and political context, 4. Franz Waxman, the Los Angeles Music Festival, and Cold War cultural politics

Part 2: Discourse and Reception

5. The reception of Franz Waxman between film music and the concert hall, 6. The reception of Hollywood film music from the 1930s to the 1960s, 7. Franz Waxman as composer-conductor, 8. Franz Waxman’s “double life” between film music and the concert hall, 9. The contemporary reception of mediality between film music and the concert hall

Part 3: Media Transfers

10. Intermediality and making the case for film music as a work of art, 11. The Paradine Case: the ambivalent relationship between film music and concert practices, 12. The music of A Place in the Sun as a media hybrid, 13. The intermedial construction of film music as a work of art through Franz Waxman’s soundtrack albums in the 1950s and 1960s

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