Composers in the movies
Subtitle: studies in musical biography
By: John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by Simon Callow.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Composers in motion pictures
Description: In this book, Tibbetts surveys different styles and periods from the Hollywood of the 1920s and 1930s to the international cinema of today, exploring the role that film biographies play in our understanding of history and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The classical style: composers in the studio era; title: 2. A song remembered: Frédéric Chopin goes to war; title: 3. The new Tin Pan Alley: Hollywood looks at American popular songwriters; title: 4. "Just an innocent bystander": the composer films of Ken Russell; title: 5. "A long, dark coda into the night": the composer films of Tony Palmer; title: 6. Revisionist portraits: a medley of recent composer biopics.