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Duke University Press

2001

x, 491 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-473) and index

9780822328001

Overture / Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- Cinema and popular song : the lost tradition / Rick Altman -- Surreal symphonies : l'age d'or and the discreet charms of classical music / Priscilla Barlow -- "The future's not ours to see" : song, singer, labyrinth in Hitchcock's The man who knew too much / Murray Pomerance -- "You think they call us plastic now--" : the Monkees and Head / Paul B. Ramaeker -- Real men don't sing ballads : the radio crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 / Allison McCracken -- Flower of the asphalt : the chanteuse réaliste in 1930s French cinema / Kelley Conway -- The embodied voice : song sequences and stardom in popular Hindi cinema / Neepa Majumdar -- Music as ethnic marker in film : the "Jewish" case / Andrew P. Killick -- Sounding the American heart : cultural politics, country music, and contemporary American film / Barbara Ching -- Crossing musical borders : the soundtrack for Touch of evil / Jill Leeper -- Documented/documentary Asians : Gurinder Chadha's I'm British but-- and the musical mediation of sonic and visual identities / Nabeel Zuberi -- Class swings : music, race, and social mobility in Broken strings / Adam Knee -- Borrowing black masculinity : the role of Johnny Hartman in The bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard -- "It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so" : African American recordings of Porgy and Bess as film and cultural criticism / Arthur Knight -- "Hollywood has taken on a new color" : the Yiddish blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill -- Picturizing American cinema : Hindi film songs and the last days of genre / Corey K. Creekmur -- Popular songs and comic allusion in contemporary cinema / Jeff Smith -- The girl and the phonograph, or the vamp and the machine revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik

This study of the relationship between popular music-based soundtracks and movies offers detailed analysis of individual films as well as historical overviews of genres, styles of music, and approaches to film scoring

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