1st Edition

Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film Reflexive Fictions

By Timothy B. Cochran Copyright 2022
216 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film focuses on the ways filmmakers treat music reflexively—that is, draw attention to what it is and what it can do. Examining a wide range of movies from recent decades including examples from Indiewood, teen film, and blockbuster cinema, the book explores two recurring ideas about music implied by foregrounded musical activity on screen: that music... Read more

Introduction: Musical Reflexivity

Chapter 1: Enduring Romanticism: Spirit-Realms, Mass-Mediation, and the New Sincerity

Chapter 2: The Sounds of Sincerity: Hearing Post-Irony in Indiewood Film

Chapter 3: On Social Alienation and the Promises of Music

Chapter 4: Performing on Musical Playgrounds

Chapter 5: "I’m Afraid You’re Just Too Darn Loud:" The Music Technological Sublime in Film

Chapter 6: Searching for Lost Time in Debussy’s "Clair de lune"

Epilogue

Biography

Timothy Cochran is Associate Professor of Music History at Eastern Connecticut State University. His articles on Olivier Messiaen and Claude Debussy have appeared in The Journal of Musicology, Theoria, 19th-Century Music, and Twentieth-Century Music. His additional research interests include composer Bernard Herrmann and music in Indiewood.