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Author:   Peter Franklin (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Oxford University, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9780195383454

ISBN 10:   0195383451
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   04 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures INTRODUCTION: Approaches, Problems & The Great Divide PART ONE: MUSIC INTO FILM - CRITICAL CROSS-FADES 1. Men's musicology/ women's films. Meanings of late-romanticism 2. Exploitation and seduction. Converging responses to popular opera and film 3. Into the mists... Subjective realms (and the undoing of men?). Film's critique of Music PART TWO: WATCHING SYMPHONIES - CAUTIONARY TALES 4. Symphonic narratives (and promiscuous pleasure). Film music and changing perceptions of the symphony in the nineteenth century. 5. Return of the Undone Woman. The critical potential of Hollywood's Music as part of the history of late romanticism. 6. Modernism and 'the image of the man'. Hollywood interprets musical modernism. Index

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<br> Franklin examines the gendered tenets of Modernism that relegated film scores - along with Mahler and Rachmaninoff - to the cultural dumpster. He brilliantly dissects 20th-century canon formation and serves up luscious accounts of how music produces its powerful effects in favorite movies. Guilty pleasures exonerated! --Susan McClary, Professor of Music, UCLA<p><br> Seeing Through Music breaks through entrenched clich?'s and uses symphonic film music to help rewrite the history of modernism and mass culture. Read this book, and trade your guilty pleasure in old movies and their music for guilt-free insight. --Lawrence Kramer, author of Interpreting Music<p><br>

Highly recommended S.C. Pelkey, Choice

<br> Franklin examines the gendered tenets of Modernism that relegated film scores - along with Mahler and Rachmaninoff - to the cultural dumpster. He brilliantly dissects 20th-century canon formation and serves up luscious accounts of how music produces its powerful effects in favorite movies. Guilty pleasures exonerated! --Susan McClary, Professor of Music, UCLA<br> Seeing Through Music breaks through entrenched cliches and uses symphonic film music to help rewrite the history of modernism and mass culture. Read this book, and trade your guilty pleasure in old movies and their music for guilt-free insight. --Lawrence Kramer, author of Interpreting Music<br>

Author Information

Peter Franklin is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He has written on Gustav Mahler and the post-romantic symphony, early twentieth-century Austrian and German opera and Hollywood film music. His publications include the books Mahler: Symphony no.3 and The Life of Mahler.

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