Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

vii, 324 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm.

"An Ahmanson foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309), filmography (p. 311-316), and index.

Introduction. Phonoplay : recasting film music -- Musical meaning. The boy on the train, or bad symphonies and good movies : the revealing error of the "symphonic score" / Peter Franklin ; Representing Beethoven : romance and sonata form in Simon Cellan Jones's Eroica / Nicholas Cook ; Minima romantica / Susan McClary ; Melodic trains : music in Polanksi's The pianist / Lawrence Kramer ; Mute music : Polanski's The pianist and Campion's The piano / Michel Chion -- Musical agency. Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo / Richard Leppert ; Sight, sound, and the temporality of myth making in Koyaanisqatsi / Mitchell Morris ; How sound floats on land : the suppression and release of folk and indigenous musics in the cinematic terrain / Philip Brophy -- Auteur music / Claudia Gorbman -- Transport and transportation in audiovisual memory / Berthold Hoeckner -- The fantastical gap between diegetic and nondiegetic / Robynn J. Stilwell -- Musical identity. Early film themes : Roxy, Adorno, and the problem of cultural capital / Rick Altman ; Before Willie : reconsidering music and the animated cartoon of the 1920s / Daniel Goldmark ; Side by side : Nino Rota, music, and film / Richard Dyer ; White face, black noise : Miles Davis and the soundtrack / Krin Gabbard ; Men at the keyboard : liminal spaces and the heterotopian function of music / Gary C. Thomas.

Motion picture music -- History and criticism.

Goldmark, Daniel.

Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Leppert, Richard D.

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