Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Lisa Shaw
Edited by Robert Stone
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreFilms and cinema
Folk and traditional
ISBN/Barcode 9781784993474
ClassificationsDewey:781.542
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 23 May 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hierarchy of the visual over the aural, thereby rendering their hearing a complex and rich subject for analysis. Screening songs... constitutes a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary collection. Of particular interest to scholars and academics in the areas of Film Studies, Hispanic Studies, Lusophone Studies and Musicology, this volume opens up the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cinema to vital, new, critical approaches. The soundtracks of films as varied as City of God, All About My Mother, Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser-known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s. Fiction films are studied alongside documentaries, the work of established directors like Pedro Almodovar, Carlos Saura and Nelson Pereira dos Santos alongside that of emerging filmmakers, and performances by iconic stars like Caetano Veloso and Chavela Vargas alongside the songs of Spanish Gypsy groups, Mexican folk songs and contemporary Brazilian rap. -- .

Author Biography

Lisa Shaw is Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool Rob Stone is Professor of Film and Hispanic Studies in the College of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University -- .