商品簡介
This volume is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary; its scope ranges from rock concert films all the way to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the "music under" produced for films by unseen musicians, on-screen "live" performances show us the bodies that produce the sounds we hear. Exploring the link between moving images and musical movement as physical gesture, this study asks why performance is so often derided as mere skill whereas composition is afforded the status of art, a question that opens onto a broader critique of attitudes regarding mental and physical labor in Western culture.
作者簡介
Thomas F. Cohen teaches in the Communication Department at the University of Tampa. He has published widely on broadcasting and film, documentary cinema, and audiovisual technology.
