Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism

Contents

• Contents: Foreword, Michael Riesman
• Introduction
• Glass, postminimalism and the media: initial questions and contexts
• 'The satisfaction of a drive': postminimal music and the advertising media
• Postmodern unfoldings? Narrative, temporality and repetition in postminimal music
• 'Notes on a soundtrack': reading Glass's recent film scores
• Metamorphic meanings in Glass's intertextual soundtracks
• This is (not) a soundtrack: Dracula the movie or music drama?
• Existential conflict in Naqoyqatsi, Book of Longing and Watchmen
• Conclusions: reviewing concepts and approaches
• Bibliography
• Electronic resources
• Selected discography
• Selected filmography
• Artworks
• Index.