{"product_id":"david-lean-9781350429314","title":"David Lean","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lean's extraordinary films enact themselves through the sights  and sounds of the technologies of modernity: through trains, planes,  ships, and automobiles  through the radio and the gramophone. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis musical motifs are known worldwide: Lara's theme in \u003ci\u003eZhivago\u003c\/i\u003e; the  Colonel Bogey March in \u003ci\u003eKwai\u003c\/i\u003e; Estella's motif in \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e;  Rosy's motif in \u003ci\u003eRyan's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e; Lawrence's motif for his adventure in  Arabia, and of course Rachmaninoff's pounding chords in \u003ci\u003eBrief  Encounter\u003c\/i\u003e. When, however, Lean described the process of cutting  pictures as akin to the music flowing through them, what sort of music or  musicality had he in mind: a classical or popular music, or a way of using  musical form to mix up the meaning and material of his films? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLydia Goehr's new book tracks the soundscape of Lean's films not only  through their musical scores, but also through the radios and  gramophones that, at the start of Lean's career, were becoming  indispensable household commodities. The book begins and ends with  a motif, running from the early domestic films situated in the English  home, to the subsequent extensive epics of colony, commonwealth,  and empire. The fidelities and infidelities of the domestic world are  traced across to the loyalties and betrayals of nations in war and peace   dualities that are bound up in this book with the witty British filmmaker's  art itself\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187314352471,"sku":"9781350429314","price":61.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/david-lean-9781350429314","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}