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100 Modern Soundtracks: BFI Screen Guides

15 Jun 2004

204 pages

Published/distributed by BFI Publishing

ISBN/EAN: 9781844570140

Paperback

Price: £12.00

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100 Modern Soundtracks: BFI Screen Guides

Brophy, Philip

Philip Brophy's bfi Screen Guide provides a soundmap to a hundred films that engage the ears. Covering titles as diverse as Way of the Dragon and Apocalypse Now, Le Samourai and Stalker, Angel Dust and Citizen Kane each entry outlines the film's distinctive contribution to the hitherto underexplored world of sound and music in cinema.

The author guides the reader through an alternative cinema canon of the 'ear' of sonically exciting and remarkable
films from all across the world and their amazing diversity of purpose and effect.This guide addresses how most film criticism has underestimated the significance of the soundtrack, and details ways in which the film soundtrack is defined by the meeting of two sonic forces: film scoring 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 Modern Soundtracks is a provocative and absorbing guide to some of the most exciting uses of sound in popular and international cinema.

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