Popular Music and the New Auteur

Visionary Filmmakers after MTV

By: Arved Ashby (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 December 2013

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MTV utterly changed the movies. Since music television arrived some 30 years ago, music videos have introduced filmmakers to a new creative vocabulary: speeds of events changed, and performance and mood came to dominate over traditional narrative storytelling. Popular Music and the New Auteur charts the impact of music videos on seven visionary directors: Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. These filmmakers demonstrate a fresh kind of cinematic musicality by writing against pop songs rather than against script, and allowing popular music a determining role in narrative, imagery, and style. Featuring important new theoretical work by some of the most provocative writers in the area today, Popular Music and the New Auteur will be required reading for all who study film music and sound. It will be particularly relevant for readers in popular music studies, and its intervention in the ongoing debate on
auteurism will make it necessary reading in film studies.

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"Popular Music and the New Auteur is an important collection. These essays demonstrate how certain contemporary directors use the selection of popular music in startling and innovative ways to imprint their films with a distinct musical signature." -- James Buhler, co-author of Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (2009) "Not only is the auteur not dead, but many contemporary directors' films sing in distinctive ways. Ashby's collection is timely and brilliantly focused, revealing the key musical dimension to filmmakers we thought we knew." -- Claudia Gorbman, author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music

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