Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction

Contents

• Introduction Film and Reality
• Part I . The Real versus The Reel
• 1. Real Performers: The Musician as Actor
• 2. Reel Performers: Fictional Music and Musicians
• Part II . Film and Life: The Mirror of Film
• 3. Moments of Desperation and Peril: Hollywood and Concert Performance
• 4. Fantasizing, Visualizing, Miming: ‘Fictional’ Listening?
• 5. Hearing Symphonies Cinematically
• Part III . Film’s Musical Identity
• 6. The Concert as Drama: Structuring and Shaping Narrative
• 7. Film Viewed from the Podium: Music and the Ontology of Movies