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Music, Ideology, and Commerce in European Popular Cinema: 1940s to 1980s book cover

1st Edition

Music, Ideology, and Commerce in European Popular Cinema 1940s to 1980s

Edited By Michael Baumgartner, Ewelina Boczkowska Copyright 2026
282 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Throughout the Cold War, the films produced on both sides of the Iron Curtain were shaped by the ideologies of their respective countries. Music played a key role defining the messages sent by these films. The chapters in Music, Ideology, and Commerce in European Popular Cinema: 1940s to 1980s offer the first extended examination of the relationships between music and ideology and between the... Read more

Introduction

Ewelina Boczkowska

 

PART I

Ideology and Music in Genre Cinema

 

1 Film Music in East and West Germany between 1946 and 1989: A Comparative Study

Wolfgang Thiel

 

2 Power Chords: The West German Schlagerfilm of the 1950s and the New World Order

Guido Heldt

 

3 “Yugoslav Antithesis” and Serbian Film Music

Vesna Mikić

 

4 Z Music: The 1970s French Political Thriller

Phil Powrie

PART II

Synergies between Popular Cinema and Media Industries

 

5 “With-It” and “Far-Out” Music for “Swinging London” Films between 1965 and 1970

K. J. Donnelly

 

6 The Dark Side of the Boom: Post-Thematic Scoring, Popular Styles, and Urban Space in the Italian Poliziottesco of the 1970s

Alessandro Bratus

 

7 Music, Generational Change, and Ideology in Italian Actor–Writer–Director Comedy Films of the 1980s

Alessandro Cecchi

 

8 Musically Powered “Suspension Points” in France’s Cinéma du Look

James Wierzbicki

Biography

Michael Baumgartner is Professor of Musicology, Cleveland State University.

Ewelina Boczkowska is Assistant Professor of Musicology, The University of Memphis.

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