Music in the Shadows

Music in the Shadows
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781421408385
ISBN-13 : 1421408384
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Book Synopsis Music in the Shadows by : Sheri Chinen Biesen

Download or read book Music in the Shadows written by Sheri Chinen Biesen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of noir musical films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers. This book explores musical films that use film noir style and bluesy strains of jazz to inhabit a disturbing underworld and reveal the dark side of fame and the American Dream. While noir musical films like A Star Is Born include musical performances, their bleak tone and expressionistic aesthetic more closely resemble the visual style of film noir. Their narratives unfold behind a stark noir lens: distorted, erratic angles and imbalanced hand-held shots allow the audience to experience a tortured, disillusioned perspective. While many musicals glamorize the quest for the spotlight in Hollywood's star factory, brooding noir musical films such as Blues in the Night, Gilda, The Red Shoes, West Side Story, and Round Midnight stretch the boundaries of film noir and the musical as film genres collide. Deep shadows, dim lighting and visual composition evoke moodiness, cynicism, pessimism, and subjective psychological points of view.


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