Soundtrack Available

""Soundtrack Available" represents a great leap forward in the analysis of film soundtracks. It is a smart, lively book that moves nicely between the detailed analysis of individual cases and broader, theoretical issues. The editors are to be commended for a collection which covers so many historical periods and national cinemas, and for staking out exciting new directions for scholarship. At the same time, this is a compelling, refreshingly jargon-free read for the non-specialist interested in film, music, or media."--Will Straw, McGill University

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Overture
Popular vs. "Serious"
Cinema and Popular Song: The Lost Tradition
Surreal Symphonies: "L'Age d'or and the Discreet Charms of Classical Music
"The Future's Not Ours to See": Song, Singer, and Labryinth in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much
"You Think They Call Us Plastic Now . . . ": The Monkees and Head
Singing Stars
Real Men Don't Sing Ballads: The Radio Crooner in Hollywood, 1929-1933
Flower of the Asphalt: The Chanteuse Realiste in 1930s French Cinema
The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Popular Hindi Cinema
Music as Ethnic Marker
Music as Ethnic Marker in Film: The "Jewish"
Case
Sounding the American Heart: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Contemporary American Film
Crossing Musical Borders: The Soundtrack for Touch of Evil
Documented/Documentary Asians: Gurinder Chadha's I'm British But . . . and the Musical Mediation of Sonic and Visual Identities
African American Identities
Class Swings: Music, Race, and Social Mobility in Broken Strings
Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in The Bridges of Madison County
Case Study: Porgy and Bess
It Ain't Necessarily So That It Ain't Necessarily So: African American Recordings of Porgy and Bess as Film and Cultural Criticism
"Hollywood Has Taken On a New Color": The Yiddish Blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess
Contemporary Compilations
Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre
Popular Songs and Comic Allusion in Contemporary Cinema
Gender and Technology
The Girl and the Phonograph or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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