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Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film - Reflexive Fictions (Hardcover)
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Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film - Reflexive Fictions (Hardcover)
Series: Ashgate Screen Music Series
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Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film focuses on the ways
filmmakers treat music reflexively-that is, draw attention to what
it is and what it can do. Examining a wide range of movies from the
last thirty-five years including examples from Indiewood, teen
film, and blockbuster cinema. The book explores two recurring ideas
about music implied by foregrounded musical activity on screen:
that music can be a potent means of sincere expression and genuine
human connection and that music can enable transcendence of
disenchantment and the mundane. The book covers eclectic critical
terrain to highlight various layers of musical sincerity and
transcendence in film, including the nineteenth-century aesthetics
of E.T.A. Hoffmann, David Foster Wallace's literary resistance to
irony (sometimes called the New Sincerity), strategies of
self-revelation in singer-songwriter repertoires, Lionel Trilling's
distinction between sincerity and authenticity, theories of play,
David Nye's notion of the American technological sublime, and
Svetlana Boym's writings on nostalgia. These lenses reveal that
film is a way of perpetuating, revising, and critiquing ideas about
music and that music in film is a potent means of exploring broader
social, emotional, and spiritual desires.
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