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Subtitle: when film and music won't work together
By: Kay Dickinson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195326635; 9780195326642
Subjects: Motion pictures and music; Motion picture music -- History and criticism; Culture in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The status and the potential of film-music that "doesn't work"; title: The motion picture you're about to see is a story of music : the migration of cinema into rock 'n' roll; title: It's not only trivial, It's bad, vulgar : Ken Russell's composer biopics and the uneasy realignment  of work and culture; title: Troubling synthesis : the horrific sights and incompatible sounds of "video nasties"; title: Pop stars who "can't act" and the limits of celebrity "flexibility"; title: The problems of conclusion.