Unsettling scores : German film, music, and ideology / Roger Hillman.
| Author/creator |
Hillman, Roger |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005. |
| Description | xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Establishing a tonal center -- Music as cultural marker in German film -- History on the soundtrack: the example of Beethoven's Ninth -- A Wagnerian German requiem: Syberberg's Hitler (1977) -- Alexander Kluge's Songs without words: Die Patriotin (1979) -- Fassbinder's compromised request concert: Lili Marleen (1980) -- The great eclecticism of the filmmaker Werner Herzog -- Pivot chords: Austrian music and Visconti's Senso (1954) -- Conclusion: film music and cultural memory. |
| Abstract | This book examines the use of classical music in film, particularly in the New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 80s. By integrating the music of Beethoven, Mahler, and others into their films, directors such as Fassbinder, Kluge, and Syberberg consciously called attention to its cultural significance. Through this music their films could reference and, in some cases, explore an embedded cultural tradition that included German nationalism and the rise of Nazism, especially during a period when German films were gaining international attention for the first time since the 1920s. Classical music conditioned the responses of German audiences and was, in turn, reinterpreted in new cinematic contexts. In this pioneering volume, the author enriches our understanding of the powerful effects of music in cinema and the aesthetic and dramatic concerns of postwar German filmmakers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004019209 |
| ISBN | 0253345375 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0253217547 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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