Research Catalog

Title

Soundtrack available : essays on film and popular music / edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight.

Publication

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-
• Knight, Arthur.

Description

x, 491 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Motion pictures and music
• Motion picture music > History and criticism
• Popular music > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

• Overture / Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- Popular vs. "Serious" 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, Labryinth 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 -- Singing Stars. Real Men Don't Sing Ballads: The Radio Crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 / Allison McCracken. Flower of the Asphalt: The Chanteuse Realiste in 1930s French Cinema / Kelley Conway. The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Popular Hindi Cinema / Neepa Majumdar -- Music as Ethnic Marker. 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 -- African American Identities. 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 -- Case Study: Poagy and Bess. "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 -- Contemporary Compilations. Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Films Songs and the Last Days of Genre / Corey K. Creekmur. Popular Songs and Comic Allusion in Contemporary Cinema / Jeff Smith -- Gender and Technology.
• The Girl and the Phonograph; or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.

ISBN

• 0822328003 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 082232797X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001033706

OCLC

• ocm47002191
• SCSB-4232434

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries