Popular Music and the New Auteur : Visionary Filmmakers After MTV

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 sounds. 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. Book jacket Music Videos Widened The Creative Vocabulary Of Filmmaking, Starting With The Launch Of Mtv In 1981, And Continuing Through The Expansion Of Cable Tv And The Proliferation Of The Pc And Of Digital Video. This Study Looks At Seven Visionary Directors, Most Of Them American, Who Have Allowed Music-video-induced Changes To Infiltrate Their Feature Films, And Defines These Filmmakers' Relation To The Soundtrack As Their Key Authorial Gesture. Edited By Arved Ashby. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Popular Music and the New Auteur looks at seven contemporary directors whose feature films are characterized by music-video aesthetics. Demonstrating a fresh kind of cinematic musicality, these filmmakers write against music rather than against script, and allow pop songs a determining role in narrative and imagery.