{"product_id":"listening-to-the-french-new-wave-the-film-music-and-composers-of-postwar-french-art-cinema-9783034317504","title":"Listening to the French New Wave: The Film Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs perhaps the most studied film movement in cinematic history, the French New Wave has been analysed and criticised, romanticised and mythologised, raising the question of whether it is possible to write anything new about this period. Yet there are still gaps in the scholarship, and the study of music in New Wave films is one of the most striking.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eListening to the French New Wave \u003c\/i\u003eoffers the first detailed study of the music and composers of French New Wave cinema, arguing for the need to re-hear and thus reassess this important period in film history. Combining an ethnographic approach with textual and score-based analysis, the author challenges the idea of the New Wave as revolutionary in all its facets by revealing traditional approaches to music in many canonical New Wave films. However, musical innovation does have its place in the New Wave, particularly in the films of the marginalised Left Bank group. The author ultimately brings to light those few collaborations that engaged with the ideology of adopting contemporary music practices for a contemporary medium. \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on archival material and interviews with New Wave composers, this book re-tells the story of the French New Wave from the perspective of its music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«For film scholars and students, this volume can add a layer of nuanced sophistication to any reading of New Wave cinema»\u003cbr\u003e (Kim Harrison, H-France Review, Vol.15, no.124)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  «McMahon navigates her way effectively through the complex patterns of collaboration between filmmakers and composers, showing a clear grasp  of the technical aspects of the process, and provides a very satisfying overview of an extremely rich period of French cinematic and musical creation.»\u003cbr\u003e (Peter Hawkins, French Studies, Vol. 69, no. 3, July 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Music and Cinema in Postwar Paris: A Cultural History – New Wave, New Music? Film Music Collaborations on the Right Bank – The French New Wave: A Musical Revolution? – Musicalising Moving Photographs: The Early Film Music of Agnès Varda – Musical ‘Madeleines’ in the Early Cinematic Essays of Chris Marker – Alain Resnais\u003ci\u003e: ‘Auteur Mélomane\u003c\/i\u003e’.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043640213847,"sku":"9783034317504","price":54.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/listening-to-the-french-new-wave-the-film-music-and-composers-of-postwar-french-art-cinema-9783034317504","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}