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Anxiety muted : American film music in a suburban age

Stanley C. Pelkey (Editor), Anthony Bushard (Editor)
Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age explores how the central concerns of the Fifties and Sixties -- and resulting treatment in the motion picture media -- can be understood through the music of the time.
eBook, English, 2014
Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 2014
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations
9780199936168, 0199936161
891397677
""Cover""; ""Anxiety Muted""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures, Tables, and Musical Examples""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""1 A Survey of History, Themes, and Trends""; ""2 Music and Mimicry in Sunset Boulevard (1950)""; ""3 Who�s Who in Hadleyville?: The Civic Voice in High Noon (1952)""; ""4 Anxieties of Accuracy: Miklós Rózsa�s Score for Quo Vadis (1951)""; ""5 “Whatever Will Be, Will Be�: Gender Equality and the Music of Alfred Hitchcock�s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)""; ""6 Music, Maturity, and the Moral Geography in Leave It to Beaver (1957�1963)"" ""7 The Whole Truth: Music as Truth in The Twilight Zone (1959�1964)""""8 “Living in Harmony�? American Music and Individualism in The Prisoner (1967�1968)""; ""9 The Sound of Disability: Music, the Obsessive Avenger, and Eugenics in America""; ""10 Masculinity, Race, and the Blues in the Bizpic Cadillac Records (2008)""; ""11 Comin� Back to the Sixties: Mobilizing Music and Performing Politics, 1988�1990""; ""12 Late-Adolescence in the American Sixties: “The Twist� and the Twentysomethings in AMC�s Mad Men (2007�)"" ""13 Musically Recreating the Fifties in Far From Heaven (2002)""""14 The Very Essence of Tragic Reality: Aaron Copland and Thomas Newman�s Suburban Scoring""; ""Index""