Baumgartner, Michael - Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema

With the novel approach of metafilm music, extrapolated from Jean-Luc Godard's oeuvre, this book not only closes up a crucial gap in Godard research, but also offers detailed analyses of the music as metafilm music in Contempt, Alphaville, Band of Outsiders, Pierrot le fou, First Name: Carmen, Histoire(s) du cinema, among other films and video productions.

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CONTENTS

Introduction: For Ever Metafilm Music
PART I: METAFILM MUSIC, FRAGMENTATION, REPETITION, AND QUOTATION
1. Gapped Music in Godard's 1960s Films: Dissection of the Musical Unity as a Self-Reflexive Exercise
2. Leitmotif Technique Revisited: Indexical Function of Multiply Repeated Musical Fragments in Godard's 1960s Films as Manifestations of Metafilm Music
3. The Undoing of the Leitmotif Technique: Quotation, Fragmentation, and Repetition in Godard's 1960s Films with Beethoven, Schumann, and Pseudo-Bach as Metafilm Music
4. Quoting Popular Songs: Chanson and Canzone as Metafilm Music in Godard's Work
PART II: METAFILM MUSIC AND GENRE REFERENCE
5. Referencing Silent Film Music: Metafilm Music, Mise en Scene, Acting, and Storytelling
6. Referencing Music-Specific Genres and Genre-Specific Music: Metafilm Music, Cinema-en-kit Musical, and Pastiched Film Noir Music
7. Referencing Film Music as a Genre: Metafilm Music, Prototypes of Film Music as Genre Mash-Up, and Melodramatic Commutation
PART III: METAFILM MUSIC, MUSIC MAKING, AND FILMMAKING
8. Music-Making as Metaphor for Filmmaking I: Metafilm Music in One Plus One and Prenom: Carmen
9. Music-Making as Metaphor for Filmmaking II: Metafilm Music in Soigne ta droite (Une place sur la terre)
Conclusion: Two or Three Things I Know about Metafilm Music(s)
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Series	Oxford Music / Media