Research Catalog

Title

The presence of the past : temporal experience and the new Hollywood soundtrack / Daniel Bishop.

Author

Bishop, Daniel, 1982-

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

viii, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 70s, several currents of American art and culture coalesced around a broad sensibility that elevated and explored the immediacy of lived experience, whether as an aesthetic or political imperative. But in films set in the historical past, this sensibility acquired complex additional resonances by speaking to the ephemerality of the present moment through a framework of history, myth, nostalgia, and other forms associated with temporal alienation or distance. The Presence of the Past explores the implications of this complex moment in Hollywood cinema through several prominent examples released in the years 1967 to 1974. Key genres are explored in detailed case studies: the outlaw film (Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands), the revisionist Western (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, McCabe and Mrs. Miller), the neo-noir (Chinatown) and the nostalgia film (The Last Picture Show and American Graffiti). In these films, however, "the past" is more than a matter of genre or setting. Rather, it is a richly diverse, often paradoxical concern in its own right, bridging conceptual territories within soundtrack studies, including the sixties pop score, myth criticism, the representation of media technology, and the role of classical music in compilation scoring. Against a broader background of an industry and film culture that were witnessing a stylistic and aesthetic diversification in the use of music and sound design, The Presence of the Past argues for the film-philosophical importance of the soundtrack for cultivating an imagined experiential understanding of the past"--

Series Statement

Oxford music/media series

Uniform Title

Oxford music/media series.

Subject

• Motion picture music > History and criticism
• Film soundtracks > History and criticism
• Nostalgia in motion pictures
• History in motion pictures
• Film soundtracks
• Motion picture music

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-241) and index.

Contents

Introduction. The Presence of the Past in the New Hollywood -- Bonnie and Clyde and the Aural Imagination of American Counterculture -- The Revisionist Western and the Mythic Past -- The Mythic Elements of Chinatown -- Radio, Memory, and the Past in the Nostalgia Film -- Badlands and the Music of Temporal Imminence.

Call Number

JNE 21-165

ISBN

• 9780190932695
• 0190932694
• 9780190932688
• 0190932686

LCCN

2021008104

OCLC

1238131069

Author

Bishop, Daniel, 1982- author.

Title

The presence of the past : temporal experience and the new Hollywood soundtrack / Daniel Bishop.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford music/media series

Oxford music/media series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-241) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Bishop, Daniel, 1982- Presence of the past [1.] New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. 9780190932718 (DLC) 2021008105

Research Call Number

JNE 21-165