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Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s
By Annette Davison
Copyright 2004
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Relatively little has been written about film scores and soundtracks outside of Hollywood cinema. Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice addresses this gap by looking at the practices of film soundtrack composition for non-Hollywood films made after 1980. Annette Davison argues that since the mid-1970s the model of the classical Hollywood score has functioned as a form of dominant ideology in... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Classical Hollywood cinema and scoring; New Hollywood cinema and ('post'-?) classical scoring; Alternatives to classical Hollywood scoring; 'What is the role of the quartet?': the soundtrack to Jean-Luc Godard's Prénom: Carmen; Playing in Jarman's Garden: sound, performance and images of persecution; Music to desire by: the soundtrack to Wim Wenders's Der Himmel über Berlin; 'People call me a director, but I really think of myself as a sound-man': David Lynch's Wild at Heart; Epilogue; Bibliography; Discography; Index.
Biography
Annette Davison lecturers at the University of Edinburgh and has published a number of articles on film music and is co-editor (with Erica Sheen) of Weird on Top: The Films and Television of David Lynch (2003).
'With Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice, Annette Davison offers a second-generation approach to film musicology that stands in relationship to the first generation (Gorbman, Kalinak, et al) much as her subject stands to Hollywood cinema - building on, reacting against, making us think about the most basic issues with new critical facilities. Sensitivity to industry practice is increasingly essential to understanding film texts and contexts, as she demonstrates in her case studies. Her discussion of the historical/theoretical framework of (and silences on) music in film will be an excellent foundation for any student in the field, and reflects the current expansion of film music scholarship into sound "at large", to the advantage of film music, film sound, and film studies.' Robynn Stilwell, Georgetown University, USA. 'Serious students of film music will certainly want to study Davison's account.' Popular Music 'For many reasons, Annette Davison's book Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice should be essential reading for film music and music scholars. In its focus on film music in the 1980s and 1990s, this book covers territory that has seen only limited exploration.' American Music
