Part of a special section on music in film. The writer discusses the state of film music criticism. The aims of film music criticism, she feels, are to call attention to, and hopefully improve, the quality of film music as music; to serve as a guide to the film-music CD market; to...
The music by Maurice Jarre has a central theme that became the hit “It Was a Good Time,” and it was impossible to not hear that song and its lyrics when the first notes of the theme appeared (and appeared, and appeared…). Yes, the film is nearly 3.5 hours long, but even a ...
By Andrew Perez Here’s Why Shaboozey Side-Eyed That ‘Carter Family Invented Country Music’ Line at the AMAs “When you uncover the true history of country music, you find a story so powerful that it cannot be erased,” the “Bar Song” star said the day after the awards show ...
Analyses of narrative structure from film theory have become for the psychology of film what harmonics and counterpoint analysis signify to the psychology of music or the theories of syntax and semantics to psycholinguistics. They inform psychological notions of film structure and organization. The aware...
The cinema as a cultural institution has been studied by academic researchers in the arts and humanities. At present, cultural media studies are the home to the aesthetics and critical analysis of film, film history and other branches of film scholarship. Probably less known to most is that res...
Of course, I should also mention that there are some other film magazines in China, which mostly copy the commercial film/music magazines popular in the west. However, it can’t be denied that these publications provide a venue, however limited, for some film criticism to be published, and...
The music in the film is of a high level (Close is dubbed by Kiri Te Kanawa), but there is not very much of it, and indeed we see little of “Tannheuser.” That isn’t the point. The point may be that opera, with all of its romance and coincidence, cannot approach the absurdit...
A list of articles related to criticism, theater, film, and journalism that were published in several journals is presented including "Essays toward a symbolic of motives, 1950-1955," by Kenneth Burke and edited by William H. Rueckert and "Gothic television," by Helen Wheatley. 年份: 2007 收...
Giada Dalla Bonta’s article “Sounding the dissolution from a Cosmic Space” introduces the universalist trend typified by the electronic music duo New Composers, Valeriy Alakhov and Igor Verichev. Bridging avantgarde legacies and rave culture, the pair’s work was informed, on the one hand, ...
The film from director Danny Boyle, Yesterday, imagines a young musician waking up after an accident to find the world has never heard of the Beatles music. He sets himself the task of bringing the legendary band’s music to an uninitiated world. Another musical entry is Blinded by the ...