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Author : John Huntley
Publisher : London : S. Robinson
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Motion picture music
ISBN : UCSD:31822011916061
Author : Paul Mazey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030335502
This book offers a fresh approach to British film music by tracing the influence of Britain’s musical heritage on the film scores of this era. From the celebration of landscape and community encompassed by pastoral music and folk song, and the connection of both with the English Musical Renaissance, to the mystical strains of choral sonorities and the stirring effects of the march, this study explores the significance of music in British film culture. With detailed analyses of the work of such key filmmakers as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Laurence Olivier and Carol Reed, and composers including Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Brian Easdale, this systematic and in-depth study explores the connotations these musical styles impart to the films and considers how each marks them with a particularly British inflection.
Author : K. Donnelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230597747
In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.
Author : Jan G. Swynnoe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0851158625
A study of the British contribution to film music, detailing the idiosyncracies of British film, and showing how the differences between it and Hollywood affected composers on both sides of the Atlantic. Jan Swynnoe's study is concerned with the special British contribution to film music, detailing how the idiosyncracies of British film, and of the British character, set it apart from its Hollywood counterpart. She shows how the differences between the two industries in all aspects of film making variously affected composers on both sides of the Atlantic. In the mid 1930s, when film composers in America were perfecting the formulae of the classical Hollywood score, film music in Britain scarcely existed; within a year or so, however, top British composers were scoring British films. How this transformation was brought about, and how established British concert composers, including Vaughan Williams and Arnold Bax, faced the challenge of the exacting and often bewildering art of scoring for feature film, is vividly described here, and the resulting scores compared with the work of seasoned Hollywood composers. JAN SWYNNOE researched the material on which her book is based over several years, at the same time pursuing her musical life as pianist, percussionist and composer.
Author : S. Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780230392236
The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B.
Author : Kevin J. Donnelly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-10
Category : Motion picture music
ISBN : 9781474467810
Bringing together some of the most influential international scholars on the subject, this anthology provides a detailed, diverse and accessible perspective on music in the cinema.
Author : John Hill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118482902
A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized, and understood. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema addresses arguments surrounding film historiography, methods of textual analysis, critical judgments, and the social and economic contexts that are central to the study of these cinemas. Twenty-nine essays from many of the most prominent writers in the field examine how British and Irish cinema have been discussed, the concepts and methods used to interpret and understand British and Irish films, and the defining issues and debates at the heart of British and Irish cinema studies. Offering a broad scope of commentary, the Companion explores historical, cultural and aesthetic questions that encompass over a century of British and Irish film studies—from the early years of the silent era to the present-day. Divided into five sections, the Companion discusses the social and cultural forces shaping British and Irish cinema during different periods, the contexts in which films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the genres and styles that have been adopted by British and Irish films, issues of representation and identity, and debates on concepts of national cinema at a time when ideas of what constitutes both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ cinema are under question. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a valuable and timely resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, media, and cultural studies, and for those seeking contemporary commentary on the cinemas of Britain and Ireland.
Author : Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0838641911
In Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960, Dr. St. Pierre examines strategies of representing British music hall performance (1854-1919) and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era (1895-1927) and the sound era (1927-60). The focus is on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Norman Evans, Max Miller, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, and Charles Chaplin. Consideration is given to themes such as war propaganda and gender impersonation.
Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843831597
Ian Johnson's evaluation of Alwyn's film music places his achievement in the context of wider movements within the film industry. William Alwyn was a leading composer of British film music in the 1940s and '50s, a time when the British film industry was at its peak. His scores ranged from documentaries to almost 80 full-length feature films, including classics such as Fires were Started, Desert Victory, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, and The History of Mr Polly; he was adept at any musical genre, from classical to cartoon slapstick, and in the process worked with legendary directors, including Carol Reed, David Lean, Humphrey Jennings, and Anthony Asquith. Alone with Vaughan Williams he was granted the distinction of a separate title credit; columnists mentioned him alongside Bliss, Bax and Walton. However, as the reputation of the British film industry declined in the 1950s, so musical snobbery against those who were its leading lights became unpleasantly raw. In recent years, however, with sensitive performances of hisfilm and concert music available on CD, this most appealing of composers has enjoyed something of a renaissance. In this long overdue reassessment, Alwyn's films are analysed and put into the context of his biography,the film industry, and of society at large: the author shows in particular this remarkably versatile composer developed a hitherto unrecognised grammar of film music which enhanced every film on which he worked. He also examines his work for war propaganda, radio, and the concert hall. The volume is enhanced by the most complete filmography, discography, and bibliography of the composer's works yet published, as well as listings of his concert and radio music.
Author : Sue Harper
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748654284
This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period.
Author : S. Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780230392236
The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B.
Author : Kevin Donnelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839020612
This book is a major new study - dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and ephemeral character of film music dealing not only with traditional orchestral film music, but also looks at film music's colonisation of television, and discusses pop music in relation to films, and the historical dimensions to ability to possess audiences that have so many important cultural and aesthetic effects. It challenges the dominant but limited conception of film music as restricted to film by looking at its use in television and influence in the world of pop music and the traditional restriction of analysis to 'valued' film music, either from 'name' composers' or from the 'golden era' of Classical Hollywood. Focusing on areas as diverse as horror, pop music in film, ethnic signposting, television drama and the soundtrack without a film- this is an original study which expands the range of writing on the subject.
Author : Kevin Donnelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054300762
A systematic guide to where and how pop music appears in British cinema, telling the story and recording the facts of the pop-film relationship decade by decade.
Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060036830
A comprehensive history of the British film industry from its inception to the present day, with minute listings of the producers, directors, actors, and studios behind a century of British cinema. Published in association with the British Film Institute and illustrated with black and white photos of film stars and filmmakers from the 1920s to the present day.
Author : Hans Keller
Publisher : Plumbago Books and Arts
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780954012366
Between 1946 and 1959, the most outspoken voice in British film music was that of the Austrian emigre Hans Keller. This work is a collection of writings on film music by the celebrated critic.
