Ashby, Arved - Popular Music and the New Auteur

Popular Music and the New Auteur looks at seven contemporary directors whose feature films are characterized by music-video aesthetics. Demonstrating a fresh kind of cinematic musicality, these filmmakers write against music rather than against script, and allow pop songs a determining role in narrative and imagery.

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CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Introduction / Arved Ashby
Music and Cinematic Time
1. Without Music I Would Be Lost: Scorsese, Goodfellas, and a New Soundtrack Practice / Julie Hubbert
2. Lost in Translation: Popular Music and The Melodramatic Mode of Sofia Coppola / Tim Anderson
Music and the Image
3. A Musical Tour of the Bizarre: Popular Music as Fantasy in David Lynch / Gene Willet
4. Songs of Delusion: Popular Music and the Aesthetics of the Self in Wong Kar-wai's Cinema / Giorgio Biancorosso
Music as Instrument of Irony and Authenticity
5. O Brother Where Chart Thou?: Pop Music and the Coen Brothers / Jeff Smith
6. You've Heard This One Before: Quentin Tarantino's Scoring Practices from Kill Bill to Inglourious Basterds / Ken Garner
7. Wes Anderson, Ironist and Auteur / Arved Ashby
Bibliography
Index