A History of Film Music

Reducere. This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing no...

Reducere. From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores...

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; th...

... a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical to date.`` Journal of Popular Films and TelevisionThe Ame...

Reducere. "That Mr. Prendergast is unusually well-equipped to discuss both the technology and the aesthetics of film music is revealed once more in this seco...

DescriptionQuadrophenia is the 1979 classic mod movie loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name, directed by Frank Roddam and sta...

DescriptionIrresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals,...

The background music on a film can make or break the audience experience. Imagine the shower scene in Psycho without the shrieking violins or Jaws ...

Reducere. A film is nearly finished when one or more of its prime movers producer, director, studio brass decides that it just doesn't 'feel" right and hits ...

Music Rights Unveiled provides an inside look at the complex world of music rights for film and video and includes step-by-step guidance to navigat...

DescriptionWe live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren't a new phenomenon; they have long permeat...

Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...

Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and th...

Description'Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, Bloom and grow forever' Often dismissed as kitsch sentimentalism, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The...

Reducere. Equal parts romance and gothic novel, this engrossing tale of unrequited love, musical genius, and physical deformity has been the basis for many a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HollanderForeword by: George RomeroIn the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who...

Reducere. This release follows the remarkable career of 'Atlantic Records' co-founder Ahmet Ertegun. It looks at the record label's impact on the evolution o...

DescriptionThe final book in the Queer Film Classics series is R.L. Cagle's take on Scorpio Rising (1963), Kenneth Anger's avant-garde short film t...

DescriptionThe story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life dram...

Silent Film Comedy was a fortuitous combination of art and technology, where the physical comedy skills and artistry passed down from the Commedia ...

Reducere. Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker, collabo...

Reducere. Brer Rabbit. Uncle Remus. Song of the South. Racist? Disney thinks so. And that's why it has forbidden the theatrical re-release of its classic fil...

Reducere. DescriptionLargely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often ...

DescriptionThe Rolling Stones are one of the most influential, prolific, and enduring Rock and Roll bands in the history of music. This groundbreak...

Published between 1987 and 1990, 'Sheer Filth' offered a heady mix of shocking film and book reviews, wild music coverage, weird cartoons, incisive...

Reducere. DescriptionOriginally formed by singer-songwriter Ian Anderson in psychedelic 1968, the band Jethro Tull has been recording its own kind of rock an...

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and...

Reducere. This comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profile...

Reducere. These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and W...

Raucous, sensual and sublime: how twelve pioneering female artists rewrote the rules of pop. From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to T...

Reducere. Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.Andrew Kotting's deliciously eccentric film is a touching p...

Reducere. Don Cheadle directed, co-wrote, and stars in the film Miles Ahead, which will be released by Sony Pictures in April 2016. This acclaimed tribute to...

This fun and revealing series examines popular culture from the beginning off the 20th Century to the age of Facebook, blogging, and Reality TV. Ea...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the dawn of rock 'n' roll, the accordion ranked among North America's most popular instruments. Arriving in the arms of immigrant...

Reducere. Epidemic exposes many of the hidden agendas in the historical formation of both Judaism and Christianity. Infected roots produce infected crops. Th...

Alma Ros 's tragic story, from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, her ...

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply -the best single work of its kind.- And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marv...

Reducere. What little-known son of a famous genius has been called: "A musical blight" "A one-man plague" "History's most justifiably neglected composer" "Th...

Reducere. NELSON RIDDLE was possibly the greatest; one of the most successful arrangers in the history of American popular music. He worked with global icons...

Reducere. NELSON RIDDLE was possibly the greatest; one of the most successful arrangers in the history of American popular music. He worked with global icons...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor many horror film fans, the name Lucio Fulci conjures images of gore and depravity. Derided by critics as a hack and an imitator and ...

Description(Piano Solo Songbook). A dozen tracks from the soundtrack to this critically acclaimed 2014 film which won the Golden Globe for Best Ori...

DescriptionAfrican American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discip...

Poetry. Dennis Hinrichsen's THIS IS WHERE I LIVE I HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO is a formally adventurous, cinematic collection of poems about everythin...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Margaretta (Professor of Cultural Studies, Professor of Cultural Studies, School of Media, Film, a...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

Reducere. The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensivel...

DescriptionThe Britpop movement of the mid-1990s defined a generation, and the films were just as exciting as the music. Beginning with Shallow Gra...

Reducere. A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson ...

Reducere. In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of the streets not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but a...

In the West, Japanese culture comes in the form of Power Rangers, Godzilla movies, and Sanrio products, but of course the indigenous pop culture is...

Reducere. He likes his vodka martinis shaken, not stirred. He drives one of the most recognizable cars in film history, and his Walther PPK has become legend...

Reducere. The voice in the headphones says, "you're rolling" . . . The Voice in the Headphones is an experiment in music writing in the form of a long poem c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurie CalkhovenIllustrator: Alyssa PetersenGet to know Lin-Manuel Miranda, the award-winning creator of Hamilton: An Ameri...

Reducere. In 1957 "Peggy Sue, " by newcomer Buddy Holly and The Crickets, rose to #3 on the charts, quickly generating a gold record. Sung by hundreds of art...

Reducere.  Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how automotive design and technology have ...

Reducere. The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. Th...

Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France's second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet...

Reducere. A massive compendium on the multimedia art of Rashid Johnson, tackling themes of Black history, literature, philosophy and material cultureRashid J...

DescriptionThe Brian Jonestown Massacre are probably best known for their leader Anton Newcombe's incendiary persona, as captured in the controvers...

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game ...

Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, ...

Editing for Directors guides directors through postproduction, starting with planning for editing during the shoot and ending with the completion o...

Reducere. Beautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's A Body of Water is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a co...

Ordinary People meets Chicago the musical as played out in the city's Black Belt, Wild Women and the Blues is a mainstream historical fiction novel...

Reducere. From a Sibert Medalist comes the epic story of Manhattan--a magical, maddening island "for all" and a microcosm of America. A veteran nonfiction st...

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper, " "brush a...

DescriptionAs featured in The New York Times A cleverly designed gift book playing on the 'periodic table' to celebrate all aspects of LGBTQ+ cultu...

In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein--"one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)--tells...