| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Music, Sound and the Nonfiction Aesthetic; 1 Resounding City Films: Vertov, Ruttmann and Early Experiments with Documentary Sound Aesthetics; 2 Sounding the World: The Role of Music and Sound in Early 'Talking' Newsreels; 3 Race, War, Music and The Problem of One Tenth of Our Nation (1940); 4 Music, Science and Educational Film in Post-War Britain; 5 Reinventing the Documentary: The Early Essay Film Soundtracks of Chris Marker; 6 Water Music: Scoring the Silent World |
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7 Music and the Aesthetics of the Recorded World: Time, Event and Meaning in Feature Documentary8 Irish Sea Power: A New Version of Man of Aran (2009/1934); 9 Excavating Authenticity: Surveying the Indie-Rock Doc; 10 More Than Background: Ambience and Sound-Design in Contemporary Art Documentary Film; 11 Sonic Ethnographies: Leviathan and New Materialisms in Documentary; Afterword; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience's perception of reality and fiction. Exploring examples of documentary films which make use of soundtrack music, from an interdisciplinary perspective, Music and Sound in Documentary Film is the first in-depth treatment on the use of music in the nonfiction film and will appeal to scholars and students working in the intersection of music and film and media |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion picture music -- History and criticism
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Film soundtracks.
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Documentary films -- History and criticism
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sound tracks.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Documentary films
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Film soundtracks
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Motion picture music
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317916048 |
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1317916042 |
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