Lecture series of formal presentations & course modules
 
cinema     m e d i a     a r t     m u s i c
Dissolving & Reconstituting Narrative Cinema
Historical Markers of the Modern Soundtrack
Contemporary Traces of the Modern Soundtrack
20th Century Music within the Cinema
An Unsavoury History of Exploitation
Preliminary Concepts in Japanese Animation

 

Folk, Rock & Pop within the Cinema

1   Days of Wine & Roses   1967 – Blake Edwards (USA)
  Lounge pop   Composer Henry Mancini; inebriation & subjective states; symbolism through musical arrangement
2   Do The Right Thing   1987 – Spike Lee (USA)
  Americana folk   Composer Bill Lee; black landscapes; musicological appropriation; harmonic reclaimation
3   O Brother Where Art Thou?   2000 – Joel & Ethan Coen (USA)
  Blues & bluegrass   Various traditonal songs & recordings; meta-rhythms in folk cycles; race & music technologies; musical anthropology and cinematic mythology
4   The Pawnbroker   1965 – Sidney Lumet (USA)
  Polyglottic jazz   Composer Quincy Jones; the imploded city; musical miscegenation
5   Shaft   1971 – Gordon Parks Jr (USA)
  Funk & soul   Composer Issac Hayes; the city grid and rhythmic patterns; race implications in ‘chase music’; song scoring
6   Wild Angels   1966 – Roger Corman (USA)
  Rock - group   Composer Mike Curb / Davie Allen & the Arrows; primitive electricity; the sound of rock; motor mechanisms
7   Dead Man   1995 – Jim Jarmusch (USA)
  Rock - solo   Composer Neil Young; rebirthing ‘silent cinema’ music; electricity and mystic lore; solo instrumentation and mythic being
8   Rumblefish   1982 – Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
  Art rock   Composer Stewart Copeland; clock time and temporization; percussivity; internal biorhythms
9   Resident Evil   2002 – Paul Anderson (Germany)
  Electronic beats   Composer Marco Baltrami; dissolution of atmosphere; player/user musical dramatics; sonarization of space
10   Patlabor 3   2002 – Fumihiko Takayama (Japan)
  Electronic ambient   Composer Kenji Kawai; liquefied sensations in music; tectonic frequencies; harmonic displacement



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