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Playing to the Camera

Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema

by Thomas Cohen

Type
Studies
Subject
GenreDocumentary
Keywords
documentary, music
Publishing date
2012
Publisher
Wallflower Press
Collection
Nonfictions
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Hardcover • 224 pages
6 ½ x 9 ¾ inches (16.5 x 25 cm)
ISBN
978-1-906660-23-9
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Book Presentation:
Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock concert films 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 volume 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.

About the Author:
Thomas F. Cohen teaches in the Communication Department at the University of Tampa. He has published on broadcasting and film, documentary cinema, and audiovisual technology.

Press Reviews:
This interestingly conceived and well-annotated book managed to change the way I looked at and perceived musical performance captured on film. Cynthia Close, Documentary Magazine

See the publisher website: Wallflower Press

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