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The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
Holly; Barha Rogers
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Description for The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
Paperback. This book explores the role of music and sound in experimental film from the earliest work of pioneers such as Walther Ruttmann to latter-day experiments with new and digital media. Chapters examine issues relating to the avant-garde, abstraction, animation, found footage, queer film, visual music and VJing. Editor(s): Rogers, Holly; Barham, Jeremy (University of Surrey, UK). Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftone, 7 line art. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the aesthetics of non-commercial imperatives. Several themes run through the book, connecting with and significantly enlarging upon current critical discourse surrounding realism and audibility in the fiction film, the role of music in mainstream cinema, and the audiovisual strategies of experimental film. The contributors investigate repertoires and artists from Europe and the USA through the critical ... Read more
This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the aesthetics of non-commercial imperatives. Several themes run through the book, connecting with and significantly enlarging upon current critical discourse surrounding realism and audibility in the fiction film, the role of music in mainstream cinema, and the audiovisual strategies of experimental film. The contributors investigate repertoires and artists from Europe and the USA through the critical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190469900
SKU
V9780190469900
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Ref
99-26
About Holly; Barha Rogers
Holly Rogers is a senior lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before this, she was the founding director of the Research Centre for Audio-Visual Media at the University of Liverpool, Fulbright Scholar at the DocFilm Institute in San Francisco and Research Fellow at the Humanities Institute of Ireland. Her primary interest lies in the relationship between sound and ... Read more
Reviews for The Music and Sound of Experimental Film
The Music and Sound of Experimental Film is an excellent and much needed collection that assesses 'the experimental impulse' of the soundtrack. The editors have assembled a remarkably strong set of essays that considers the processes by which experimental sound reworks film and experimental film reworks the soundtrack. The result is an important collection that all scholars of the soundtrack ... Read more