Playing to the Camera – Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema
Author:   Thomas Cohen
Publisher:   Wallflower Press
ISBN:  

9781906660222


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 March 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Playing to the Camera – Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema


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Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the 'music under' produced for films by unseen musicians, on-screen 'live' performances show us the bodies that produce the sounds we hear. Exploring the link between moving images and musical movement as physical gesture, this volume asks why performance is so often derided as mere skill whereas composition is afforded the status of art, a question that opens onto a broader critique of attitudes regarding mental and physical labor in Western culture.

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Author:   Thomas Cohen
Publisher:   Wallflower Press
Imprint:   Wallflower Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.256kg
ISBN:  

9781906660222


ISBN 10:   1906660220
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: In Praise of Performance 1. Cool Jazz, Hot Jazz and Hard Bop on a Summer's Day 2. Wild Guitarists and Spastic Singers: Virtuosic Performance on Film 3. Direct Cinema, Rock's Public Persona and the Emergence of the Rock Star 4. Instrumental Technique and Facial Expression On Screen 5. Free Jazz Meets Independent Film: Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made in America 6. 'I'm Looking at Them and They're Looking at Me': Observation and Communication in Sex Pistols: Live at the Longhorn Conclusion: Simple Gestures and Smooth Spaces in Robert Cahen's Boulez-Repons Bibliography Index

Reviews

This interestingly conceived and well-annotated book managed to change the way I looked at and perceived musical performance captured on film.--Cynthia Close Documentary Magazine (01/01/0001)


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