Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema

Matthew Caley, Steve Lannin9781841500782, 1-84150-078-X

This volume considers how popular music is used in filmmaking. Each of 12 essays offers a close examination of one song within a particular cinematic context. For example, one essay looks at the song “Man of Constant Sorrow,” from the film Oh Brother Where Art Thou (2000), as an allusion to the directors’ Jewish roots. The contributors are cultural critics and academics representing a variety of disciplines, including film studies, musicology, contemporary art, sociology, and marketing. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS.

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Table of contents :
EEn……Page 1
Pop Fiction – The Song in Cinema……Page 2
Back Cover……Page 3
Copyright Info……Page 5
TOC……Page 6
Foreword……Page 8
Introduction……Page 11
Garibaldi Fought Here – I’m Your Man [Leonard Cohen, 1988] / Dear Diary [Nanni Moretti, 1993]……Page 17
Heavy Rotation – The End [The Doors, 1967] / Apocalypse Now, Redux [Ford-Coppola, 1979/2001]……Page 30
Two Jews Wander Through The Southland – I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow [Soggy Bottom Boys, 2000] / O Brother Where Art Thou [Coen Brothers, 2000]……Page 41
The Ambi-Diegesis Of My Funny Valentine – My Funny Valentine [M. Damon 1998, M. Pfeiffer 1989] / The Fablous Baker Boys [Coppola 1979] & The Talented Mr Ripley [Mingella 1979]……Page 46
Music, Masculinity & Membership – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You [Frankie Valli, 1967] / The Deer Hunter [Michael Cimino, 1978]……Page 62
Fluid Figures: How To See Ghost[s] – Unchained Melody [Righteous Brothers, 1965] / Ghost [Jerry Zucker, 1990]……Page 69
Reap Just What You Sow – Perfect Day [Lou Reed, 1973] / Trainspotting [Danny Boyle, 1996]……Page 83
Blonde Abjection: Spectatorship & The Abject Anal Space In-Between – Stuck In The Middle With You [Stealers Wheel, 1973] / Reservoir Dogs [Quentin Tarantino, 1992]……Page 96
Always Blue: Chet Baker’s Voice – Almost Blue [Chet Baker, 1988] / Let’s Get Lost [Bruce Webber, 1988]……Page 117
From Bond To Blank – Live And Let Die [Wings, 1973] / Grosse Pointe Blank [George Armitage, 1997]……Page 124
Clean Reading: The Problematics of ‘In The Air Tonight’ In Risky Business – In the Air Tonight [Phil Collins, 1981] / Risky Business [Paul Brickman, 1983]……Page 133
Falling Into Coma: Wong Kar Wei and Massive Attack – Karma Coma [Massive Attack, 1994] / Fallen Angels [Wong Kar Wei, 1992]……Page 149
Contributors……Page 156
Index……Page 159