Music and Sound in Documentary Film

Contents

• Preface
• Bill Nichols 1. Introduction: Music, Sound, and the Nonfiction Aesthetic
• Holly Rogers 2. Resounding City Films: Vertov, Ruttmann and Early Experiments with Documentary Sound Aesthetics
• Carolyn Birdsall 3. Sounding the World: The Role of Music and Sound in Early "Talking" Newsreels
• James Deaville 4. Race, War, Music and The Problem of One Tenth of Our Nation (1940)
• Julie Hubbert 5. Music, Science, and Educational Film in Post-War Britain
• Thomas F. Cohen 6. Reinventing the Documentary: The Early Essay Film Soundtracks of Chris Marker
• Orlene Denice McMahon 7. Water Music: Scoring the Silent World
• Mervyn Cooke 8. Music and the Aesthetics of the Recorded World: Time, Event and Meaning in Feature Documentary
• John Corner 9. Irish Sea Power: A New Version of Man of Aran (2009/1934)
• K.J.Donnelly 10. Excavating Authenticity: Surveying the Indie Rock-Doc
• Jamie Sexton 11. More Than Background: Ambience and Sound-Design in Contemporary Art Documentary Film
• Marion Leonard and Robert Strachan 12. Sonic Ethnographies: Leviathan and New Materialisms in Documentary
• Selmin Kara and Alanna Thain Afterword
• Anahid Kassabian