100 Modern Soundtracks by Philip Brophy

100 Modern Soundtracks by Philip Brophy

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Brophy's guide provides a soundmap to 100 films that engage the ears. Covering titles as diverse as 'Way of the Dragon', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Le Samourai', 'Stalker', and 'Citizen Kane, each entry outlines the film's distinctive contribution to the hitherto under explored world of sound and music in cinema.

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100 Modern Soundtracks by Philip Brophy

Philip Brophy's bfi Screen Guide provides a soundmap to a hundred films that engage the ears. Covering titles as diverse as Car Wash and Apocalypse Now, Le Samourai and Stalker, Shaft and Citizen Kane each entry outlines the film's distinctive contribution to the hitherto underexplored world of sound in cinema. The author guides the reader through an alternative cinema canon of the 'ear' of sonically exciting and remarkablefilms from all across the world and their amazing diversity of purpose and effect.This guide shows how most critics completly underestimate the significance of sound and how it is caught between the two irrreconcilable forces of the 'sound track'and sound design. In his introduction and analysis (or more accurately 'hearing) of 100 films, the author compels the reader to 'listen not look' and to 'think with their ears'. 100 Film Scores and Sound Design is a provocative and absorbing guide to some of the most exciting uses of sound in popular and international cinema.
Philip Brophy is Film director, composer & sound designer Lecturer in Soundtrack production at Media Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and director of the CINESONIC International Conference on Film Scores & Sound Design out of which he has edited three books on Sound the most recent of which is Cinesonic: Experiencing The Soundtrack, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney 2002 . He has written for THE WIRE, London, and FILM COMMENT .Currently he also runs the SOUND PUNCH record label specializing in experimental soundscapes encoded in Dolby Surround and stages surround sound events in galleries and cinemas.
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ISBN 13 9781844570140
ISBN 10 1844570142
Title 100 Modern Soundtracks
Author Philip Brophy
Series Screen Guides
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2004-06-15
Number of pages 272
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