Listening to Stanley Kubrick by Christine Lee Gengaro (.ePUB)
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Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films by Christine Lee Gengaro
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Overview: The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick’s films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important component in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick used music to great effect is still somewhat mysterious to many viewers. A lot of people know a little something about the music in 2001: A Space Odyssey or A Clockwork Orange, but not much about the other films. In Listening to Stanley Kubrick: The Music in His Films, Christine Gengaro provides an in-depth exploration of the music that was composed for Kubrick’s films and places the pre-existent music he utilized into historical context. Gengaro discusses the music in every single work, from Kubrick’s first films, including the documentary shorts The Flying Padre and Day of the Fight to all of his features films, from Fear and Desire to the film he was working on when he died. No film is left out, no cue is ignored.
Besides closely examining the scores composed by Gerald Fried for Kubrick’s early works, the author pays particular attention to five of the director’s most provocative and acclaimed films 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. In each, the author engages the reader by explaining how the music was excerpted and changed and how the historical facts about a musical piece add layers of meaning to the films. Meant for the film lover, the music lover and the scholar, Listening to Stanley Kubrick offers a thoroughly researched examination into the musical elements of one of cinema’s most brilliant artists. Appropriate for a cinema studies or music classroom, this volume will also appeal to any fan of Kubrick’s films.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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