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Author Cohen, Thomas F.

Title Playing to the camera : musicians and musical performance in documentary cinema / Thomas F. Cohen.

Publication Info. London : Wallflower Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Nonfictions
Nonfictions.
Note "A Wallflower book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface; Introduction: In Praise of Performance; 1 Cool Jazz, Hot Jazz and Hard Bop on a Summer's Day; 2 Wild Guitarists and Spastic Singers: Virtuosic Performance on Film; 3 Direct Cinema, Rock's Public Persona and the Emergence of the Rock Star; 4 Instrumental Technique and Facial Expression On Screen; 5 Independent Cinema Meets Free Jazz: Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made in America; 6 'I'm Looking at Them and They're Looking at Me': Observation and Communication in Sex Pistols: Live at the Longhorn; Conclusion: Simple Gestures and Smooth Spaces in Robert Cahen's Boulez-Repons.
Summary Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from music education films to punk rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the?music under' produced for movies by anonymous musicians sequestered in recording studios, on-screen?live' performances remind us of the relation between music and the bodies that produce it. Leaving aside analysis of the film score to explore the link between moving images and musical movement as physical gesture, this volume asks why performance has so o.
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Subject Documentary films -- History.
Documentary films.
History.
Concert films -- History.
Concert films.
Music.
Music.
Musicians.
Musicians.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Cohen, Thomas. Playing to the Camera : Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema. London : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9781906660222
ISBN 9780231501804 (electronic book)
0231501803 (electronic book)
9781906660222 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781906660239 (cloth alkaline paper)
Music No. EB00639104 Recorded Books