Popular Music and the Ne Auteur Visionary Filmmakers after MTV [Paperback]

MTV utterly changed the movies. Since music television arrived some 30 years ago, music videos have introduced filmmakers to a new creative vocabulary: speeds of events changed, and performance and mood came to dominate over traditional narrative storytelling. Popular Music and the New Auteur charts the impact of music videos on seven visionary directors: Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. These filmmakers demonstrate a fresh kind of cinematic musicality by writing against pop songs rather than against script, and allowing popular music a determining role in narrative, imagery, and style. Featuring important new theoretical work by some of the most provocative writers in the area today, Popular Music and the New Auteur will be required reading for all who study film music and sound. It will be particularly relevant for readers in popular music studies, and its intervention in the ongoing debate on auteurism will make it necessary reading in film studies.

Table of Contents
Introduction / Arved Ashby

Music and Cinematic Time
1. Without Music I Would Be Lost : Scorsese, Goodfellas, and a New Soundtrack Practice / Julie Hubbert
2. Lost in Translation: Popular Music and The Melodramatic Mode of Sofia Coppola / Tim Anderson

Music and the Image
3. A Musical Tour of the Bizarre: Popular Music as Fantasy in David Lynch / Gene Willet
4. Songs of Delusion: Popular Music and the Aesthetics of the Self in Wong Kar-wai's Cinema / Giorgio Biancorosso

Music as Instrument of Irony and Authenticity
5. O Brother Where Chart Thou?: Pop Music and the Coen Brothers / Jeff Smith
6. You've Heard This One Before: Quentin Tarantino's Scoring Practices from Kill Bill to Inglourious Basterds / Ken Garner
7. Wes Anderson, Ironist and Auteur / Arved Ashby

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Index

Arved Ashbyis Professor of Music at The Ohio State UniverslS'