Anxiety muted : American film music in a suburban age /
In this collection, contributors employ diverse critical methods and perspectives to explore the role of music in American film and television of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in films from more recent years that allude to, reflect back upon or recreate those decades. Particular attention is given...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | In this collection, contributors employ diverse critical methods and perspectives to explore the role of music in American film and television of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in films from more recent years that allude to, reflect back upon or recreate those decades. Particular attention is given to uncovering how motion picture culture and its music treated anxieties about suburbanization, conformity, the family and gender. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 298 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199936151 (hardcover) 0199936153 (hardcover) 9780199936175 (pbk.) 019993617X (pbk.) |