Playing to the camera : musicians and musical performance in documentary cinema

• Tác giả: Thomas F Cohen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1906660220
• ISBN-10: 1906660239
• ISBN-13: 978-1906660222
• ISBN-13: 978-1906660239
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 070.18 Motion pictures
• Thông tin xuất bản: London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: 154 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Công nghệ thông tin
• ID: 158033
• Chủ đề: 1. Documentary films--History and criticism; 2. Motion picture music; 3. Music--Performance

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) and index.

Tóm tắt

 "This volume is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary
  its scope ranges from rock concert films all the way 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 study 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."--P. [4] of cover.