Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

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de Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Type: Essays
Sujet: Countries > United States
Mots Clés: music, queer, american cinema
Année d'édition: 2017
Editeur: Palgrave MacMillan
Collection: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
Langue: anglais

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Paperback • 276 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

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978-1-349-68713-8

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to queerness that questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures, binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is retrogressive in cinema. Examined films include Bride of Frankenstein, Louisiana Story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Blazing Saddles, Edward Scissorhands, Brokeback Mountain, Boys Don't Cry, Transamerica, Thelma & Louise, Go Fish and The Living End, with special attention given to films that subvert or complicate genre. Music is analyzed with concern for composition, intertextual references, absolute musical structures, song lyrics, recording, arrangement, and performance issues. This multidisciplinary work, featuring groundbreaking research, analysis, and theory, offers new close readings and a model for future scholarship.

À propos de l'auteur :
Jack Curtis Dubowsky is a composer, author, music editor, educator, and filmmaker. Major musical works include Harvey Milk: A Cantata and an oratory with orchestra, Eisenhower Farewell Address. Dubowsky is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Revue de Presse:
"I recommend Dubowsky’s text as a useful starting place for someone who wishes to investigate queer film studies or film music, or who is establishing a bibliography towards these fields. The book would find frequent use in an institutional library." (C.J. Komp, Society for American Music, american-music.org, 2018)

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