CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Preface xv
Introduction 1
1 Do the Eisenstein Thing: 5
The Audiovisual in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989)
2 Double Echoes: Music and Sound in David Lynch's 15
Lost Highway (1997)
3 Audiovisual Irony, Terror, Ecstasy: 29
David Lean, This Happy Breed (1944),
Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds (1963),
Werner Herzog, Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
4 Where's the film composer? 35
Music, Image and Sound in Stanley Kubrick's
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5 Filmic Choreographies: A Backward Glance 51
John and James Whitney, Len Lye, Norman McLaren,
Busby Berkeley
6 Maya Deren: Meshes of the Audiovisual 73
Music, Image and Sound in Maya Deren's
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, 1959)
7 The Audiovisual Imagination Beyond the European Tradition 81
Satyajit Ray, Devi (1960),
Kaneto Shindo, Onibaba (1964),
Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood (1957)
8 Sonic Art, Digital Cinema 89
Chris H. Lynn, A Trilogy of Summer (2010-2012)
9 Two Films with Little Music 95
Fritz Lang M (1931),
Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1948)
10 The Audiovisual in Three Found Footage Films 117
Dziga Vertov, Three Songs of Lenin (1934),
Bruce Conner, Crossroads (1976),
Jack Chambers, The Hart of London (1968-1970)
11 Two Audiovisual Collages 131
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to Matthew (1964),
Sergei Paradjanov, The Legend of the Surami Fortress (1984)
12 'The echo of many voices': Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) 153
13 Three Russians: The Audiovisual and the Long Take 159
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan The Terrible, Part 1 (1944),
Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice (1986),
Alexander Sokurov, Mother and Son (1997)
14 Intertransparency and the Leaping Elements 167
Robert Robertson and Dennis Dracup, Empedocles (1995)
15 Diary of a Music/Film 177
Robert Robertson, Oserake and The River That Walks (2002)
- Oserake and The River That Walks: How is a music/Film made?
- From the spectacular to the everyday:
an overview of Oserake in progress
- Audiovisual montage: music, sound and image in
Oserake and The River That Walks
- The wilderness of the imagination
- Montage is something which begins to happen
- A note on silence
- Foreground and background
- The window lens: lenses and time
- More on montage, visual and audiovisual
- Polished: the road to technical perfection
- A conversation after a visit to Picasso's studio, 1943
- The tripod
- Pause/freeze
- Energy and imagination
- Thinking about digital thinking
- The modulable form
Notes 233
Bibliography 247
Index 251
Acknowledgements xiii
Preface xv
Introduction 1
1 Do the Eisenstein Thing: 5
The Audiovisual in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989)
2 Double Echoes: Music and Sound in David Lynch's 15
Lost Highway (1997)
3 Audiovisual Irony, Terror, Ecstasy: 29
David Lean, This Happy Breed (1944),
Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds (1963),
Werner Herzog, Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
4 Where's the film composer? 35
Music, Image and Sound in Stanley Kubrick's
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5 Filmic Choreographies: A Backward Glance 51
John and James Whitney, Len Lye, Norman McLaren,
Busby Berkeley
6 Maya Deren: Meshes of the Audiovisual 73
Music, Image and Sound in Maya Deren's
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, 1959)
7 The Audiovisual Imagination Beyond the European Tradition 81
Satyajit Ray, Devi (1960),
Kaneto Shindo, Onibaba (1964),
Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood (1957)
8 Sonic Art, Digital Cinema 89
Chris H. Lynn, A Trilogy of Summer (2010-2012)
9 Two Films with Little Music 95
Fritz Lang M (1931),
Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1948)
10 The Audiovisual in Three Found Footage Films 117
Dziga Vertov, Three Songs of Lenin (1934),
Bruce Conner, Crossroads (1976),
Jack Chambers, The Hart of London (1968-1970)
11 Two Audiovisual Collages 131
Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to Matthew (1964),
Sergei Paradjanov, The Legend of the Surami Fortress (1984)
12 'The echo of many voices': Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) 153
13 Three Russians: The Audiovisual and the Long Take 159
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan The Terrible, Part 1 (1944),
Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice (1986),
Alexander Sokurov, Mother and Son (1997)
14 Intertransparency and the Leaping Elements 167
Robert Robertson and Dennis Dracup, Empedocles (1995)
15 Diary of a Music/Film 177
Robert Robertson, Oserake and The River That Walks (2002)
- Oserake and The River That Walks: How is a music/Film made?
- From the spectacular to the everyday:
an overview of Oserake in progress
- Audiovisual montage: music, sound and image in
Oserake and The River That Walks
- The wilderness of the imagination
- Montage is something which begins to happen
- A note on silence
- Foreground and background
- The window lens: lenses and time
- More on montage, visual and audiovisual
- Polished: the road to technical perfection
- A conversation after a visit to Picasso's studio, 1943
- The tripod
- Pause/freeze
- Energy and imagination
- Thinking about digital thinking
- The modulable form
Notes 233
Bibliography 247
Index 251