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We'll Meet Again Kate McQuiston (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Hawaii - Manoa)

We'll Meet Again By Kate McQuiston (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Hawaii - Manoa)

Summary

We'll Meet Again illuminates music's central role in the design and reception of Stanley Kubrick's films. It brings together archival evidence and close analysis to trace the ways music serves as starting point and inspiration throughout Kubrick's working process.

We'll Meet Again Summary

We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick by Kate McQuiston (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Hawaii - Manoa)

Famous for his painstaking attention to detail and for the craftsmanship and artistry he brought to his work, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is by now long established as both the subject of an entire sub-field of scholarly inquiry, and as the object of all levels of cinema studies pedagogy. His oeuvre, developed over nearly 50 years, traverses an immensely broad variety of film genres and subjects and has long been studied and understood in terms of its narrative, thematic, and striking visual elements. However, unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image are central trademarks of Kubrick's style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in A Clockwork Orange, each excerpt hand-picked by Kubrick himself. We'll Meet Again argues that some of the most compelling and understudied aspects of Stanley Kubrick's films are musically conceived. Author Kate McQuiston illustrates that, for Kubrick, music is neither post-production afterthought nor background nor incidental, but rather core to films' themes and meanings. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which identifies the building blocks in Kubrick's sonic world and illuminates the ways in which Kubrick uses them to substantiate his characters and to define character relationships. The second section delves into the effects of Kubrick's signature musical techniques, including the use of texture, recurrence, and inscription to render and reinforce psychological ideas and particular spectator responses. The third and final section presents case studies in which the history of the music Kubrick chooses plays a vital and dynamic role. Throughout the author's arguments, the book locates Kubrick as a force in music reception history by examining the relationship between his musical choices and popular culture.

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For years people have been discussing these films' ever-fascinating layers of narrative and imagery. Now McQuiston, fresh from time spent at the recently-opened Kubrick archives in London, joins the conversation with brilliant commentary on the films' sound and music. Kubrick fans will love this book. * James Wierzbicki, author of Film Music: A History *
No director was more attentive to music than Stanley Kubrick. And now, here is a thoroughly researched, gracefully written book that does justice to what Kubrick achieved with his music. McQuiston has made an essential contribution to the literature on music and cinema. * Krin Gabbard, author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture *
This book tackles the musical aesthetic and practice of one of the most influential filmmakers in the post-classical period. The level of archival detail it engages in is impressive and stands to revise not just our understanding of Kubrick's films but the definition of auteurism and soundtrack compilation practice since the 1960s * Julie Hubbert, Associate Professor of Music, University of South Carolina *

About Kate McQuiston (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Hawaii - Manoa)

Kate McQuiston is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she has taught since 2007.

Table of Contents

Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Illustrations ; Introduction ; PART I THE ANATOMY OF THE KUBRICK SOUNDSCAPE ; 1 Language, Lyrics, Voice and Sound ; 2 Drawing Lines and Crossing Borders: Musical Climates, the Diegetic-Nondiegetic Border and ; Voice-Over Narration ; PART II MUSIC-CINEMATIC TOPICS ; 3 Mysterious Music with Invisible Edges and The Emergence of Musical Form in The Shining ; 4 Reimagining Music in Barry Lyndon ; 5 The Mutual Inscription of Music and Drama ; PART III WE'VE MET BEFORE: FAMILIAR PIECES AND THEIR HISTORIES ; 6 Evolution and Amnesia in the Soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey ; 7 Musical Dialectics and The More Troublesome Beethoven ; 8 Kubrick's Spin on Max Ophuls and the Ineluctable Waltz ; Coda ; Select Bibliography ; Index

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NLS9780199767663
9780199767663
0199767661
We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick by Kate McQuiston (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Hawaii - Manoa)
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Oxford University Press Inc
20131031
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