Composers in the movies studies in musical biography
Even before movies had sound, filmmakers dramatised the lives of composers. Movie biographies - or biopics - have depicted composers as diverse as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George M. Cohan, Stephen Foster, and George Gershwin. In this enticing book, the first devoted entirely to such films, John C. T...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31705029*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The classical style: composers in the studio era
- A song remembered: Frédéric Chopin goes to war
- The new Tin Pan Alley: Hollywood looks at American popular songwriters
- "Just an innocent bystander": the composer films of Ken Russell
- "A long, dark coda into the night": the composer films of Tony Palmer
- Revisionist portraits: a medley of recent composer biopics.
