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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Music and the Resurfacing of Silent Film: A General Introduction
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How Far Can Too Far Go? Radical Approaches to Silent Film Music
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Current Practices and New Traditions
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically accurate orchestral scores to contemporary sounds by groups such as Pet Shop Boys or by experimental composers and gothic heavy metal bands. It is no exaggeration to claim that music constitutes a bridge between the old silent film and the modern audience; music is also a channel for non-scholarly audiences to gain an appreciation of silent films. Music has become a means both for musicians and audiences to understand this bygone film art anew. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films. It not only has the character of a scholarly work but is also something of a manual in that it discusses how to make music for silent films.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ann-Kristin Wallengren is Professor in Film Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her research embraces questions about film and national and cultural identity, representation, ideology and transnationality, as well as on different aspects of film music. She has recently published Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness in Film and, together with K.J.Donnelly, a special issue of Music and the Moving Image about the psychology of film music.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films
Book Subtitle: Making Music for Silent Cinema
Editors: K. J. Donnelly, Ann-Kristin Wallengren
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137466365
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46635-8Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57913-6Published: 14 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46636-5Published: 08 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6354
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6362
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 225
Topics: Directing, Film History, Media Studies, Arts, Screen Studies