British Film Music and Film Musicals
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British Film Music and Film Musicals

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eBook - PDF

British Film Music and Film Musicals

About this book

In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnellyexamines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. British Film Music and Film Musicals
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 British Film Music
  7. 3 Wicked Sounds and Magic Melodies: Music in Gainsborough Melodramas
  8. 4 Did You Hear the One about the Irishman? Sound and Music, Forging Ethnicity in Odd Man Out (1946)
  9. 5 Experimenting with Film Scores, 1967–1970
  10. 6 Pop Music Culture, Synergy and Songs in Films: Hardware (1990) and Trainspotting (1996)
  11. 7 History of British Film Musicals
  12. 8 Stage to Screen: Whatever Happened to the British Musical Adaptation?
  13. 9 The Perpetual Busman’s Holiday: Sir Cliff Richard and the British Pop Musical
  14. 10 The Musical Revolution: The Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night
  15. 11 White Labels and Black Imports: Music, Assimilation and Commerce in Absolute Beginners (1985)
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index