Contents

Volume 2 • Number 3

Fall 2009




     
 
The Music of Film Silence
DANIJELA KULEZIC-WILSON
Danijela Kulezic-Wilson (enquiries@ianwilson.org.uk) studied musicology at the University of Belgrade and obtained her PhD at the University of Ulster, UK. Her present research focuses on approaches to film that emphasize its inherent musical properties, the musicality of sound design in European and American Independent film and musical aspects of Beckett's plays. Her publications include essays on film rhythm, musical and film time, P.T. Anderson's Magnolia, Prokofiev's music for Eisenstein's films, Darren Aronofsky's Pi and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man. Recently she designed and taught a course on documentary film theory at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
 
The Harpist in the Closet: Film Music as Epistemological Joke
GIORGIO BIANCOROSSO
Giorgio Biancorosso holds a PhD in Musicology from Princeton University and has had appointments at Northwestern University, the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, and The University of Hong Kong, where he now teaches Music and Film Studies in the School of Humanities.

Biancorosso is completing a book, under contract with Oxford University Press, called
Musical Aesthetics through Cinema. He has published in the areas of film theory, musical aesthetics, and Hong Kong cinema for the journals ECHO, AAA/TAC, Music and Letters, and Shima: The International Research Journal into Island Cultures; he has also contributed essays to the volumes Bad Music (Routledge, 2004), Il melodramma (Bulzoni, Rome, 2007), The Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy (Routledge, 2008), and Wagner and Cinema (Indiana University Press, forthcoming).
 
Deceptive Melodies: Musical Fetishes and Motivic Manipulation in The Paradine Case (1947)
NATHAN PLATTE
Nathan Platte (nplatte@umich.edu) is a PhD Candidate in musicology at the University of Michigan, where he is completing a dissertation titled "Musical Collaboration, Coercion, and Resistance in the Films of David O. Selznick, 1932–1948." He has forthcoming articles in The Journal of Film Music and 19th-Century Music.
 

 



 
 
 
 

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