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Anxiety muted : American film music in a suburban age / edited by Stanley C. Pelkey II and Anthony Bushard.

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Anxiety muted : American film music in a suburban age / edited by Stanley C. Pelkey II and Anthony Bushard.
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Pelkey, Stanley C.
  • Bushard, Anthony, 1974-
Description
xviii, 298 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
Summary
"In this collection, contributors employ diverse critical methods and perspectives to explore the role of music in American film and television of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in films from more recent years that allude to, reflect back upon, or recreate those decades. Particular attention is given to uncovering how motion picture culture and its music treated anxieties about suburbanization, conformity, the family, and gender"--Provided by publisher.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Alternative Title
American film music in a suburban age
Subject
  • Motion picture music > United States > History and criticism
  • Television music > United States > History and criticism
  • Suburban life in popular culture > United States
  • Motion picture music
  • Suburban life in popular culture
  • Television music
  • United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A survey of history, themes, and trends / Stanley C. Pelkey II -- Music and mimicry in Sunset Boulevard (1950) / Christina Gier -- Who's who in Hadleyville : the civic voice in High noon (1952) / Anthony Bushard -- Anxieties of accuracy : Miklós Rózsa's score for Quo vadis (1951) / Linda K. Schubert -- "Whatever will be, will be" : gender equality and the music of Alfred Hitchcock's The man who knew too much (1956) / Joshua Neumann -- Music, maturity, and the moral geography in Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963) / Stanley C. Pelkey II -- The whole truth : music as truth in The twilight zone (1959-1964) / Reba Wissner -- "Living in harmony"? : American music and individualism in The prisoner (1967-1968) / Joanna Smolko and Tim Smolko -- The sound of disability : music, the Obsessive avenger, and eugenics in America / Meghan Schrader -- Masculinity, race, and the blues in the Bizpic Cadillac records (2008) / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- Comin' back to the sixties : mobilizing music and performing politics, 1988-1990 / Christopher D. Stone -- Late-adolescence in the American sixties : "The twist" and the twentysomethings in AMC's Mad men (2007- ) / Samantha London -- Musically recreating the fifties in Far from heaven (2002) / Mariana Whitmer -- The very essence of tragic reality : Aaron Copland and Thomas Newman's suburban scoring / Anthony Bushard.
ISBN
  • 9780199936151
  • 0199936153
  • 9780199936175
  • 019993617X
LCCN
^^2014009907
OCLC
  • 875055954
  • SCSB-10381764
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library