1st Edition

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe 1940s to 1980s

Edited By Michael Baumgartner, Ewelina Boczkowska Copyright 2023
250 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the Berlin wall, a period when composers and directors embraced experimentation. Through analyses of music and sound in a wide range of iconic films from across Europe, the essays in this book provide a nuanced reconsideration... Read more

Part 1: Cinematic Collaborations and the Questioning of the Auteur Style Through Music

1. Music as a Sonic Enabler: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Film Adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s Les enfants terribles

Laura Anderson

2. Palimpsest, Mediation, Déjà entendu-Effect: The Musical Dramaturgy of Federico Fellini and Nino Rota’s La dolce vita

Emilio Sala

3. Michael Nyman and the Development of an Art House Musical Aesthetic

Pwyll ap Siôn

Part 2: Music and Narration: The Meaning Beyond the Text

4. Shostakovich, Arnshtam, and the Sound of the Cinematic Soviet Heroine

Joan Titus

5. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il grido: Its Music and the Pain of Living

Roberto Calabretto

Part 3: Music as Cinematic Metaphor in a Repressed Political System

6. A Taste of Freedom Behind Closed Doors: Romanian Film Music before the Fall of Communism, 1955–85

Dominique Nasta

7. Echoes of Catastrophe: Music in Films of The Polish School

Iwona Sowińska

8. The Soundtrack of the Uncanny: Music and Repetition in Carlos Saura’s Ana y los lobos (1972) and Cría cuervos (1975)

Karen Poe Lang

Biography

Michael Baumgartner is Associate Professor of Musicology, Cleveland State University.

Ewelina Boczkowska is Professor of Musicology, Youngstown State University.