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Popular Music and the New Auteur - Visionary Filmmakers after MTV (Hardcover)
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Popular Music and the New Auteur - Visionary Filmmakers after MTV (Hardcover)
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Movies have never been the same since MTV. While the classic
symphonic film score promised direct insight into a character's
mind, the expanded role of popular music has made more ambiguous
the question of when, if ever, we are allowed to see or share a
character's emotions. As a result, the potential for irony and
ambiguity has multiplied exponentially, and characterization and
narrative capacities have fragmented. At the most basic level, this
new aesthetic has required filmgoers to renegotiate some of their
most basic instinctual connections with the human voice and with
any sense of a filmmaking self. Music videos widened the creative
vocabulary of filmmaking: they increased speeds of event in cinema
and deflecting filmmakers from narrative, characterization, and
storytelling toward a concentration on situation, feeling, mood,
and time. Popular Music and the New Auteur charts the impact of
music videos on seven visionary directors: Martin Scorsese, Sofia
Coppola, David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, the Coen brothers, Quentin
Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. Ashby and his contributors define
these filmmakers' relation to the soundtrack as their key authorial
gesture. These filmmakers demonstrate a fresh kind of cinematic
musicality by writing against music rather than against script, and
allowing pop songs a determining role in narrative and imagery.
Featuring important new theoretical work by some of the most
stimulating and provocative writers in the area today, Popular
Music and the New Auteur will be required reading for all who study
film music and sound. It will also be particularly relevant for
readers in popular music studies, and its intervention in the
ongoing debate on auteurism will make it necessary reading in film
studies.
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