The musicality of narrative film / Danijela Kulezic-Wilson.

Film is often compared to music, explained by the use of musical terms and even conceived and structured using music as a model. The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the film/music analogy through comparative analysis of both arts' common denomi...

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Main Author: Kulezic-Wilson, Danijela (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Palgrave studies in audio-visual culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Music as Model and Metaphor
  • 3. The Musicality of Film Rhythm
  • 4. The Rhythm of Rhythms
  • 5. Musical and Film Kinesis
  • 6. The Symbolic Nature of Musical and Film Time
  • 7. Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" and the Rhythm of Musical Form
  • 8. Hip Hop and Techno Composing Techniques and Models of Structuring in Darren Aronofsky's "p"
  • 9. Audio-Visual Musicality and Reflexivity in Joe Wright's "Anna Karenina"
  • Conclusion.
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Topography of Film Musicality
  • 1. Introduction
  • What is musical(ity)-- musicality of film as metaphor
  • Musical poetics of film
  • 2. Music as Model and Metaphor
  • Tracing the origins of contemporary film/music analogies
  • Film's musical potential and contemporary film music practice
  • influence of MTV
  • pt. II Comparative Analysis of Music and Film
  • 3. Musicality of Film Rhythm
  • Music rhythm and its reflection in aspects of film rhythm
  • Rhythm, metre and Gestalt laws of perception
  • Rhythm of the shot and the cut
  • 4. Rhythm of Rhythms
  • Macro-rhythm and issues of perception
  • immersive power of form
  • Repetition as a structural and a musical device
  • power of patterns
  • musicality of narrative and editing patterns
  • 5. Musical and Film Kines
  • illusion of movement
  • Musical movement within a shot
  • Musical movement of editing
  • Audio-visual motion and emotion
  • kinesis of audio-visual interaction
  • musicality of cinema action
  • 6. Symbolic Nature of Musical and Film Time
  • Time in music and film
  • Philosophical and spiritual dimensions of linear and nonlinear time in music and film
  • Multiple temporalities in music and film
  • Time as a symbol
  • Music as a portal into the multiple temporalities of the Lynchian universe
  • pt. III Case Studies
  • 7. Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and the Rhythm of Musical Form
  • From cool to political, spiritual and musical
  • Structural rhythm
  • Rhythm of silence and sound
  • Micro-rhythm
  • Rhythm of time, space and motion
  • Affective rhythm
  • 8. Hip Hop and Techno Composing Techniques and
  • Models of Structuring in Darren Aronofsky's π
  • Paranoid filmmaking as an inspiration for paranoid analysis
  • patterns
  • Hip hop editing
  • Audio-visual kinesis and musical patterning
  • Techno flow
  • 9. Audio-Visual Musicality and Reflexivity in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina
  • Love and lust
  • Opposites, gaps and the porous borders between them
  • Flowing movement, morphing desires
  • Nuts, bolts and invisible joints
  • powers of fate
  • 1. Arrival
  • 2. Reckless Rebel
  • 3. Promise of the Future
  • 4. New Directions
  • 5. Safe in the Park
  • 6. Forward Motion
  • 7. Episodic Television
  • 8. Drive Away
  • 9. Outlaws to Make You Smile
  • 10. Natural Rhythms
  • 11. Hope and Despair
  • 12. Sudden Compulsion
  • 13. Puzzlement
  • 14. Life in the Shadow
  • 15. Ripples Through Time
  • 16. Fractured Image
  • 17. Testimony
  • 18. Doorway to Transcendence
  • 19. Fact and Fiction.