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Overview"Classical music masterworks have long played a key supporting role in the movies—silent films were often accompanied by a pianist or even a full orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory music—yet the complexity of this role has thus far been underappreciated. Sounds Like Helicopters corrects this oversight through close interpretations of classical music works in key modernist films by Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog, Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, and Terrence Malick. Beginning with the famous example of Wagner's ""Ride of the Valkyries"" in Apocalypse Now, Matthew Lau demonstrates that there is a significant continuity between classical music and modernist cinema that belies their seemingly ironic juxtaposition. Though often regarded as a stuffy, conservative art form, classical music has a venerable avant-garde tradition, and key films by important directors show that modernist cinema restores the original subversive energy of these classical masterworks. These films, Lau argues, remind us of what this music sounded like when it was still new and difficult; they remind us that great music remains new music. The pattern of reliance on classical music by modernist directors suggests it is not enough to watch modernist cinema: one must listen to its music to sense its prehistory, its history, and its obscure, prophetic future." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew LauPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438476308ISBN 10: 1438476302 Pages: 186 Publication Date: 02 July 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Fundamental Continuity 1. What Happens to an Apocalypse Deferred: Coppola, Herzog, and Schwarzenegger as Readers of Wagner’s Ring 2. The Imperfect Wagnerite: Luis Buñuel and Romantic Surrealism 3. “A Film Should Be Like Music”: Stanley Kubrick and the Condition of Music 4. Too Soon, Too Late, and Still to Come: Jean-Luc Godard and the Ruins of Classical Music 5. Before a Winter’s Journey: Michael Haneke’s Critique of Film Music in The Piano Teacher Conclusion: Modernist Cinema’s Family Tree Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsLau ... makes engaging connections between music, film, and a variety of literary works. - CHOICE To learn how classical music and modernist cinema were destined to be lovers, long before Adorno learned to talk, read Matthew Lau's inventive book, which shows us how to see music, and how to hear cinema. After taking a spin with Isabelle Huppert, Franz Schubert will never be the same again, thanks to the meticulous Lau, who shows us how some of classical music's not-yet-kindled radicalism required modernist cinema's perversely revivifying touch. What's more, Lau manages to offer, in his conclusion, a subtle, stirring plea for a society-a politics-that makes room for difficult cinema and complex music. For such a society's emergence, Lau's book may be the instruction manual, teaching salvific, insurrectional solfege. - Wayne Koestenbaum, author of The Anatomy of Harpo Marx To learn how classical music and modernist cinema were destined to be lovers, long before Adorno learned to talk, read Matthew Lau's inventive book, which shows us how to see music, and how to hear cinema. After taking a spin with Isabelle Huppert, Franz Schubert will never be the same again, thanks to the meticulous Lau, who shows us how some of classical music's not-yet-kindled radicalism required modernist cinema's perversely revivifying touch. What's more, Lau manages to offer, in his conclusion, a subtle, stirring plea for a society-a politics-that makes room for difficult cinema and complex music. For such a society's emergence, Lau's book may be the instruction manual, teaching salvific, insurrectional solfege. - Wayne Koestenbaum, author of The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Author InformationMatthew Lau is Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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