Music, Narrative and the Moving Image : Varieties of Plurimedial Interrelations.

Intro -- Music, Narrative and the Moving Image: Varieties of Plurimedial Interrelations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Film Music -- Section 1: Film Music: Reflections on Functions -- 1 Music's Body and the Moving Image -- 2 Disturbing Silences and Open Narratives: Musical Gaps in Fictional and Documentary Moving Images -- 3 Traditional and Non-Traditional Uses of Film Music, and Musical Metalepsis in The Truman Show -- 4 Homer and the Springfield Orchestra Bus: Four Test Cases for Any Future Challenge to the Diegetic/Non-Diegetic Model -- Section 2: Film Music: Significant Intermedial Cases -- 5 Operatic Plurimediality in Italian Silent Cinema: Nino Oxilia and Pietro Mascagni's Rapsodia Satanica (1915) -- 6 Humanized Documentary, 'Light' Verse, and Music Made to Fit: G.P.O. Film Unit/Auden/Britten's Night Mail (1936) -- 7 An Incarnation of Memory: Song as Absence in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah -- 8 Accumulating Schubert: Music and Narrative in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep -- 9 Mise en Scène, Mozart, and a Borrowed Chorale: Learned Style and Identity in Pawlikowski's Ida -- Part 2: Intermedial Varieties -- 10 Shadow Images Moving to Music: La Tentation de saint Antoine in Montmartre -- 11 'The Big Turnaround in the Middle': On the Silent Movie and the Film Music Interlude in Alban Berg's Opera Lulu -- 12 All the Pieces Matter: On Complex TV Music -- 13 The Music Videos of the Alternative Rock Band They Might Be Giants: Prolegomena for a Theory of Nonsense across Media -- Part 3: Remediations -- 14 Thrilling Opera: Conflicts of the Mind and the Media in Kasper Holten's Juan -- 15 Novel, Woodcuts, Film, Music .: Pondering over the Title of Gara Garayev's Symphony Engravings 'Don Quixote' -- 16 Film as Opera: Three Perspectives on Still Life and Brief Encounter -- 17 On the Intertextual Docks, or, Whatever Happened to Shanghai Lil?.

List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors.

By focusing on discussions of artistic works that show relationships between three individual communicative media, this volume adopts an innovative, trifocal interdisciplinary perspective: the traditional field of Word and Music Studies is here extended to include research on film and other forms of moving visualizations.

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