Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood (Oxford Music/Media Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199371113 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Platte shows how Selznick managed his composers--some of the best-known in Hollywood--to get the musical treatment that he wanted, and his account of music in Selznick's films brings much light to the evolving process of scoring films in the studio era."-James Buhler, Professor of Music Theory, The University of Texas at Austin and co-author of Hearing the Movies"Nathan Platte compellingly demonstrates what he calls 'the glorious fuzziness of authorship' in Selznick's Hollywood film music. Mining the archives, thoroughly conversant with scholarship, and with access to production records, music notes, and the scores themselves, Platte produces a masterwork."-Kathryn Kalinak, author
His reputation depended in large part on music. The orchestral cacophony of King Kong, the pulsing electronic sonorities of Spellbound, and the Tara theme from Gone with theWind made music a distinguishing feature of the Selznick experience. But he did not do it alone. Whether working with the producer directly or managing his presence from a distance, all had to reckon with Selznick's musical preoccupations. Even Selznick anticipated that such problems would "go down in the history of Hollywood as the last wild fling of people who really fiddled-and how!-while Hollywood burned." Drawing on extensive archival research, Platte recounts those stories here, tracing Selznick's musical labors during the silent era through his work at the major studios and his culminating efforts at Selznick International Pictures. The cast includes familiar composers like Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Dimitri Tiomkin, but extends to overlooked contributors, including music editor Audray Granvil
He is co-author of Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide (Scarecrow Press, 2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook (Routledge, 2011).. Nathan Platte is Professor of music history at the University of Iowa