Exceptional conversations: Classical music and the historical imagination of narrative cinema
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Title
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Exceptional conversations: Classical music and the historical imagination of narrative cinema
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:ebb57d1a29de:11050
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identifier
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11294
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Creator
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Lau, Matthew,
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Contributor
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Joshua Wilner
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Date
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2011
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Film studies | Music | Art history | Critical Theory | Historical Materialism | Literary Criticism | Psychoanalysis
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Abstract
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Exceptional Conversations: Classical Music and the Historical Imagination of Narrative Cinema examines the ways in which film and music are bound together in their histories, forms, and meanings. More specifically it describes and interprets how music figures in some of the most singular directors' films and it traces the various appearances of equally singular composers' works in film. Thus, my dissertation includes chapters on Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard, and Michael Haneke as well as sustained interpretations of music's role in films by Charlie Chaplin, Francis Ford Coppola and several documentaries by Werner Herzog, among others. My thesis is that the cinema is a contested realization of Wagner's idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Cinema is "the art work of the future," but not the one Wagner imagined. I thus argue for a definition of cinema form and history that reserves a more pivotal role for classical music in cinema than has been previously proposed.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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English
