Listening to Stanley Kubrick (dedikált példány) [antikvár]

IntroductionMusic in film is powerful. It enhances emotion, signals danger, accompanies epiphany, and depicts movement. It forms the aural element of an invented world, contributing to its authenticity and its vitality. Those directors who truly understand the power of music will create films that use it wisely and well. Stanley Kubrick is one of a handful of directors whose musical choices over the course of his career demonstrated a keen understanding of what music could bring to a film, and through almost fifty years and more than a dozen film projects, Kubrick's musical sensibilities developed and became finely tuned. The music in his films displays insight, inventiveness, and vision. Furthermore, Kubrick's musical choices have affected the world outside of his films, influencing cultural consumption of certain pieces of classical music. It seems appropriate then to compile a guide detailing the music in Kubrick's films, both the traditional scores and the préexistent music chosen for the later films. Kubrick's musical journey has often been overshadowed by other aspects of his workhis films' visual look, his meticulous, near-obsessive work habits, his unwillingness to travel or appear in publicbut music is a very important element of Kubrick's art, one that needs analysis if it is to be truly appreciated.Kubrick's use of music is certainly one of the things that have made his films legendary, and we must wonder where his affinity for music originated. Indeed, we wonder what combination of influences created all aspects of Kubrick's filmmaking genius. Many biographers and Kubrick scholars have spent much time and many pages searching Kubrick's past for clues to his greatness, for indicators in his childhood and youngVII