Tristian Evans

Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass

Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book offers one of the first in-depth studies of Philip Glass's music for film, considering The Hours and Dracula, Naqoyqatsi, Notes on a Scandal and Watchmen, while examining re-applications of the music in new cinematic and televisual contexts. The book will appeal to musicologists but also to those working in the fields of film music, cultur

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367598044
• ISBN-10: 0367598043
• Artikelnr.: 69890956

Autorenporträt

Tristian Evans is lecturer in Music at Bangor University, UK. He completed BMus, MA and doctoral studies at Bangor between 2002-10, receiving support from the AHRC's doctoral programme.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword, Michael Riesman
Introduction
Glass, postminimalism and the media: initial questions and contexts
'The satisfaction of a drive': postminimal music and the advertising media
Postmodern unfoldings? Narrative, temporality and repetition in postminimal music
'Notes on a soundtrack': reading Glass's recent film scores
Metamorphic meanings in Glass's intertextual soundtracks
This is (not) a soundtrack: Dracula the movie or music drama?
Existential conflict in Naqoyqatsi, Book of Longing and Watchmen
Conclusions: reviewing concepts and approaches
Bibliography
Electronic resources
Selected discography
Selected filmography
Artworks
Index.