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Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction book cover

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Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction

By Ben Winters Copyright 2014
276 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to the ontology of film. The book asserts that narrative film of a variety... Read more

Introduction: Film and Reality Part I. The Real versus The Reel 1. Real Performers: The Musician as Actor 2. Reel Performers: Fictional Music and Musicians Part II. Film and Life: The Mirror of Film 3. Moments of Desperation and Peril: Hollywood and Concert Performance 4. Fantasizing, Visualizing, Miming: ‘Fictional’ Listening? 5. Hearing Symphonies Cinematically Part III. Film’s Musical Identity 6. The Concert as Drama: Structuring and Shaping Narrative 7. Film Viewed from the Podium: Music and the Ontology of Movies

Biography

Ben Winters is Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK. He is the author of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Adventures of Robin Hood: A Film Score Guide (2007), and has published on film music in musicological journals, and in edited collections of essays for Routledge.

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