Contributor
Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964-
Imprint:Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Descriptionx, 491 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Note:Cinema and popular song: the lost tradition / Rick Altman. - Surreal symphonies: L'Age d'or and the discreet charms of classical music / Priscilla Barlow. - "The future's not ours to see": song, singer, labyrinth in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much / Murray Pomerance. - "You think they call us plastic now...": The Monkees and Head / Paul B. Ramaeker. - Read men don's sing ballads: the radio crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933 / Allison McCracken. - Flower of the asphalt: the Chanteuse Réalist in 1930s French cinema / Kelley Conway. - The embodied voice: song sequences and stardom in popular Hindi cinema / Neepa Majumdar. - Music as ethnic marker in film: the "Jewish" case / Andrew P. Killick. - Sounding the American heart: cultural politics, country music, and contemporary American film / Barbara Ching. - Crossing musical borders: the soundtrack for Touch of Evil / Jill Leeper. - Documented/documentary Asians: Gurinder Chadha's I'm British but... and the musical meditation of sonic and visual identities / Nabeel Zuberi. - Class swings: music, race, and social mobility in Broken Strings / Adam Knee. - Borrowing black masculinity: the role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard. - "It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so": AFrican American recordings of Porgy and Bess as film and cultural criticism / Arthur Knight. - "Hollywood has taken on a new color": the Yiddish blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill. - Picturizing American cinema: Hindi film songs and the last days of genre / Corey K. Creekmur. - Popular songs and comic allusion in contemporary cinema / Jeff Smith. - The girl and the phonograph; or the vamp and the machine revisited / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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