220 Pages
44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies.
Closely examining performances of such actors as James Dean, Montgomery Clift, and Marilyn Monroe, and films of directors like Elia Kazan, Douglas Sirk, and Alfred Hitchcock, this volume provides a comprehensive view of how screen performance has... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: Musicalising Montgomery Clift
Chapter 2: Kazan, Brando, and Mélomania
Chapter 3: Hitchcock’s Time Vectors of Acting and Music
Chapter 4: Day, Monroe, and Gendered Music
Chapter 5: Dissonance and Consonance in James Dean’s Films
Chapter 6: Waters, Poitier, Music, and Race
Chapter 7: Musical Characterisation in the Melodramas of Sirk and Minnelli
Conclusion
Biography
Gregory Camp is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland School of Music, New Zealand.
