Composers in the movies : studies in musical biography

Composers in the movies : studies in musical biography / John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by Simon Callow.

Even before movies had sound, filmmakers dramatised the lives of composers. Movie biographies - or biopics - have depicted composers as diverse as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George M. Cohan, Stephen Foster, and George Gershwin. In this enticing book, the first devoted entirely to such films, John C. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tibbetts, John C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Composers in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
MUSIC > General.
Composers in motion pictures
Filmmuziek.
Films.
Componisten.
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Table of Contents:
  • The classical style: composers in the studio era
  • A song remembered: Frédéric Chopin goes to war
  • The new Tin Pan Alley: Hollywood looks at American popular songwriters
  • "Just an innocent bystander": the composer films of Ken Russell
  • "A long, dark coda into the night": the composer films of Tony Palmer
  • Revisionist portraits: a medley of recent composer biopics.

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