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Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema

Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema

Cohen, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Nonfictions

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1906660220
ISBN13: 9781906660222
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: Mar 13 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the 'music under' produced for films by unseen musicians, on-screen 'live' performances show us the bodies that produce the sounds we hear. Exploring the link between moving images and musical movement as physical gesture, this volume asks why performance is so often derided as mere skill whereas composition is afforded the status of art, a question that opens onto a broader critique of attitudes regarding mental and physical labor in Western culture.

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