Music and sound in documentary film

• Other Authors: Rogers, Holly
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Routledge 2015
• Series: Routledge music and screen media series
• Subjects: Film soundtracks; Documentary films > History and criticism; Motion picture music > History and criticism
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This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience's perception of reality and fiction. Exploring example...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : music, sound, and the nonfiction aesthetic / Holly Rogers
• Resounding city films : Vertov, Ruttmann and early experiments with documentary sound aesthetics / Carolyn Birdsall
• Sounding the world : the role of music and sound in early "talking" newsreels / James Deaville
• Race, war, music and the problem of one tenth of our nation / Julie Hubbert
• Music, science, and educational film in post-war Britain / Thomas F. Cohen
• Reinventing the documentary : the early essay film soundtracks of Chris Marker / Orlene Denice McMahon
• Water music : scoring the silent world / Mervyn Cooke
• Music and the aesthetics of the recorded world : time, event and meaning in feature documentary / John Corner
• Irish sea power : a new version of Man of Aran (2009/1934) / K.J. Donnelly
• Excavating authenticity : surveying the indie rock-doc / Jamie Sexton
• More than background : ambience and sound-design in contemporary art documentary film / Marion Leonard and Robert Strachan
• Sonic ethnographies : Leviathan and new materialisms in documentary / Kara Selmin and Alanna Thain.