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Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of
cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most
cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts
I and II, The Leopard, the Zeffirelli Shakespeares, nearly all of
Fellini and for more than 140 popular Italian movies. Yet his music
does not quite work in the way that we have come to assume music in
film works: it does not seek to draw us in and identify, nor to
overwhelm and excite us. In itself, in its pretty but reticent
melodies, its at once comic and touching rhythms, and in its
relation to what's on screen, Rota's music is close and
affectionate towards characters and events but still restrained,
not detached but ironically attached. In this major new study of
Rota's film career, Richard Dyer gives a detailed account of Rota's
aesthetic, suggesting it offers a new approach to how we understand
both film music and feeling and film more broadly. He also provides
a first full account in English of Rota's life and work, linking it
to notions of plagiarism and pastiche, genre and convention, irony
and narrative. Rota's practice is related to some of the major ways
music is used in film, including the motif, musical reference,
underscoring and the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic
music, revealing how Rota both conforms to and undermines standard
conceptions. In addition, Dyer considers the issue of gay cultural
production, Rota's favourte genre, comedy, and his productive
collaboration with the director Federico Fellini.
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Gothic Art
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Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl
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Chagall
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Mikhail Guerman
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