Music, narrative and the moving image : varieties of plurimedial interrelations / edited by Walter Bernhart, David Francis Urrows.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index.

Film music: reflections on functions. Music's body and the moving image / Lawrence Kramer -- Disturbing Silences and Open Narratives: Musical Gaps in Fictional and Documentary Moving Images/ Saskia Jaszoltowski -- Traditional and Non-traditional Uses of Film Music, and Musical Metalepsis in The Truman Show / Werner Wolf -- Homer and the Springfield Orchestra Bus: Four Test Cases for Any Future challenge to the Diegetic/Non-diegetic model / Jordan Carmalt Stokes -- Film Music: Significant Intermedial Cases. Operatic Plurimediality in Italian Silent Cinema: Nino Oxilia and Pietro Mascagni's Rapsodia satanica (1915) / Bernhard Kuhn -- Humanized Documentary, "Light" Verse, and Music Made to Fit: g.p.o. film Unit/Auden/Britten's Night Mail (1936) / Walter Bernhart -- An Incarnation of Memory: Song as Absence in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Ruth Jacobs -- Accumulating Schubert: Music and Narrative in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep / Heidi Hart -- Mise en scene, Mozart, and a Borrowed Chorale: Learned Style and Identity in Pawlikowski's Ida / Christopher Booth -- Intermedial Varieties. Shadow Images Moving to Music: La tentation de Saint Antoine in Montmartre / Peter Dayan -- 'The Big Turnaround in the Middle': On the Silent Movie and the Film Music Interlude in Alban Berg's Opera Lulu / Marion Recknagel -- All the pieces matter: On complex TV music / Frieder von Ammon -- The Music Videos of Alternative Rock Band They Might Be Giants: Prolegomena for a Theory of Nonsense across Media / Emily Petermann -- Remediations. Thrilling Opera: Conflicts of the Mind and the Media in Kasper Holten's Juan / Axel Englund -- Novel, Woodcuts, Film, Music: Pondering over the Title of Gara Garayev's Symphony Engravings "Don Quixote" / Alla Bayramova -- Film as Opera: Three Perspectives on Still Life and Brief Encounter / Michael Halliwell -- On the Intertextual Docks, or, Whatever Happened to Shanghai Lil? / David Francis Urrows.

In extending the traditional field of Word and Music Studies to include research on film and other forms of moving visualizations, this volume focuses on innovative discussions of artistic works showing relationships between three individual communicative media. This trifocal, interdisciplinary perspective is reflected in seventeen essays that cover the historical space from the 19th to the 21st centuries and discuss a wide variety of individual genres in the represented media. These range from Parisian cabaret to 'revolutionary' Peking opera, from silent film to Holocaust narration, from documentary propaganda movies to opera film interludes, and more. The investigation of historical cases is broadened by reflections on theoretical and functional issues, primarily in film music, which show a remarkable breadth of technical and perceptual varieties. The essays here collected are of relevance to scholars and students of film studies, musicology, and literature, as well as readers generally interested in Intermediality Studies.