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Nino Rota - Music Film and Feeling Paperback - 2010
by Dyer, Richard
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- Title Nino Rota - Music Film and Feeling
- Author Dyer, Richard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
- Date 2010
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 355490719772
- ISBN 9781844572106 / 1844572102
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.8 x 0.7 in (23.11 x 17.27 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture music - History and criticism, Rota, Nino
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010032624
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.542
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From the rear cover
Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I and II, The Leopard, the Zeffirelli Shakespeares, nearly all of Fellini and for more than 140 popular Italian movies. Yet his music does not quite work in the way that we have come to assume music in film works: it does not seek to draw us in and identify, nor to overwhelm and excite us. In itself, in its pretty but reticent melodies, its at once comic and touching rhythms, and in its relation to what's on screen, Rota's music is close and affectionate towards characters and events but still restrained, not detached but ironically attached. In this major new study of Rota's film career, Richard Dyer gives a detailed account of Rota's aesthetic, suggesting it offers a new approach to how we understand both film music and feeling and film more broadly. He also provides a first full account in English of Rota's life and work, linking it to notions of plagiarism and pastiche, genre and convention, irony and narrative. Rota's practice is related to some of the major ways music is used in film, including the motif, musical reference, underscoring and the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic music, revealing how Rota both conforms to and undermines standard conceptions. In addition, Dyer considers the issue of gay cultural production, Rota's favourte genre, comedy, and his productive collaboration with the director Federico Fellini.
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