Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together

by Kay Dickinson

In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn to post-industrialization, the book expands the ways in which the union of the film and music businesses can be understood.

Moving beyond the typical understanding of film music that privileges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195326644
• ISBN13: 9780195326642
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"