Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction

by Ben Winters

Book Overview

This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to the ontology of film. The book asserts that narrative film of a variety of aesthetic approaches and traditions is no mere...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415824532
• ISBN13: 9780415824538
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"