The Musicality of Narrative Film [electronic resource] /
Kulezic-Wilson, D.author.
The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without music.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Part I: The Topography of Film Musicality; 1 Introduction; What is musical(ity)?; The musicality of film as metaphor; Musical poetics of film; 2 Music as Model and Metaphor; Tracing the origins of contemporary film/music analogies; Film's musical potential and contemporary film music practice; The influence of MTV; Part II: Comparative Analysis of Music and Film; 3 The Musicality of Film Rhythm; Music rhythm and its reflection in aspects of film rhythm; Rhythm, metre and Gestalt laws of perception; Rhythm of the shot and the cut
4 The Rhythm of RhythmsMacro-rhythm and issues of perception; The immersive power of form; Repetition as a structural and a musical device; The power of patterns; The musicality of narrative and editing patterns; 5 Musical and Film Kinesis; The illusion of movement; Musical movement within a shot; Musical movement of editing; Audio-visual motion and emotion; The kinesis of audio-visual interaction; The musicality of cinema action; 6 The Symbolic Nature of Musical and Film Time; Time in music and film; Philosophical and spiritual dimensions of linear and nonlinear time in music and film
Multiple temporalities in music and filmTime as a symbol; Music as a portal into the multiple temporalities of the Lynchian universe; Part III: Case Studies; 7 Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and the Rhythm of Musical Form; From cool to political, spiritual and musical; Structural rhythm; Rhythm of silence and sound; Micro-rhythm; Rhythm of time, space and motion; Affective rhythm; 8 Hip Hop and Techno Composing Techniques and Models of Structuring in Darren Aronofsky's π; Paranoid filmmaking as an inspiration for paranoid analysis; The patterns; Hip hop editing
Audio-visual kinesis and musical patterningTechno flow; 9 Audio-Visual Musicality and Reflexivity in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina; Love and lust; Opposites, gaps and the porous borders between them; Flowing movement, morphing desires; Nuts, bolts and invisible joints; The powers of fate; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without music.
Music.
Motion pictures-Production and direction.
Motion pictures-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Communication.
Music.
Directing.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Media Studies.