Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling

by Richard Dyer

Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I and II, The Leopard, the Zeffirelli Shakespeares, nearly all of Fellini and for more than 140 popular Italian movies. Yet his music does not quite work in the way that we have come to assume music in film works: it does not seek to draw us in and identify,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844572102
• ISBN13: 9781844572106
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.1"