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Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film

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Description for Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 52 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AV. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.

Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt from within more linear narrative frameworks. The representational strategies found in these films are often formulaic, repeating familiar story lines and stereotypical depictions of race, gender, and class. Yet she finds the musical moment contains a powerful disruptive potential.

Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same investigates the tension and the fusion of difference and repetition in films to ask, How does the musical moment work? Herzog looks at an eclectic mix of works, ... Read more

Drawing on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze, she explores all of these dissonances as productive forces, and in doing so demonstrates the transformative power of the unexpected.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816660889
SKU
V9780816660889
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About Amy Herzog
Amy Herzog is assistant professor of media studies and coordinator of the Film Studies Program at Queens College, CUNY.

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