Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music
- Editor: Knight, Arthur
- Editor: Wojcik, Pamela
Book
$158.00Out of stock at the UK distributor
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Overture / Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
- I. Popular vs. "Serious"
- Cinema and Popular Song: The Lost Tradition / Rick Altman
- Surreal Symphonies: "L'Age d'or and the Discreet Charms of Classical Music / Priscilla Barlow
- "The Future's Not Ours to See": Song, Singer, and Labryinth in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much / Murray Pomerance
- "You Think They Call Us Plastic Now . . . ": The Monkees and Head / Paul B. Ramaeker
- II. Singing Stars
- Real Men Don't Sing Ballads: The Radio Crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 / Allison McCracken
- Flower of the Asphalt: The Chanteuse Realiste in 1930s French Cinema / Kelley Conway
- The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Popular Hindi Cinema / Neepa Majumdar
- III. Music as Ethnic Marker
- Music as Ethnic Marker in Film: The "Jewish" Case / Andrew P. Killick
- Sounding the American Heart: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Contemporary American Film / Barbara Ching
- Crossing Musical Borders: The Soundtrack for Touch of Evil / Jill Leeper
- Documented/Documentary Asians: Gurinder Chadha's I'm British But . . . and the Musical Mediation of Sonic and Visual Identities / Nabeel Zuberi
- IV. African American Identities
- Class Swings: Music, Race, and Social Mobility in Broken Strings / Adam Knee
- Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard
- V. Case Study: Porgy and Bess
- It Ain't Necessarily So That It Ain't Necessarily So: African American Recordings of Porgy and Bess as Film and Cultural Criticism / Arthur Knight
- "Hollywood Has Taken On a New Color": The Yiddish Blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill
- VI. Contemporary Compilations
- Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre / Corey K. Creekmur
- Popular Songs and Comic Allusion in Contemporary Cinema / Jeff Smith
- VII. Gender and Technology
- The Girl and the Phonograph; or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index