ABSTRACT
This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience’s perception of reality and fiction. Exploring examples of documentary films which make use of soundtrack music, from an interdisciplinary perspective, Music and Sound in Documentary Film is the first in-depth treatment on the use of music in the nonfiction film and will appeal to scholars and students working in the intersection of music and film and media studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Resounding City Films
Vertov, Ruttmann and Early Experiments with Documentary Sound Aesthetics
chapter |14 pages
Music and the Aesthetics of the Recorded World
Time, Event and Meaning in Feature Documentary
chapter |14 pages
More Than Background
Ambience and Sound-Design in Contemporary Art Documentary Film