Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

British Film Music and Film Musicals

  • Book
  • © 2007

Overview

Authors:
  1. K. J. Donnelly

    1. University of Aberystwyth, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 16.99 USD 39.99
Discount applied Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 1-13

  3. British Film Music

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 14-39

  4. Wicked Sounds and Magic Melodies: Music in Gainsborough Melodramas

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 40-55

  5. Did You Hear the One about the Irishman? Sound and Music, Forging Ethnicity in Odd Man Out (1946)

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 56-68

  6. Experimenting with Film Scores, 1967–1970

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 69-84

  7. Pop Music Culture, Synergy and Songs in Films: Hardware (1990) and Trainspotting (1996)

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 85-99

  8. History of British Film Musicals

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 100-121

  9. Stage to Screen: Whatever Happened to the British Musical Adaptation?

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 122-137

  10. The Perpetual Busman’s Holiday: Sir Cliff Richard and the British Pop Musical

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 138-150

  11. The Musical Revolution: The Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 151-165

  12. White Labels and Black Imports: Music, Assimilation and Commerce in Absolute Beginners (1985)

    • K. J. Donnelly
    Pages 166-178

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 179-222
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.

Reviews

'Donnelly's book is a welcome addition to the slowly expanding corpus of serious writing on British film music.' - Jeffrey Richards, Journal of British Cinema and Television

'British Film Music and Film Musicals constitutes a valuable addition to the analytical literature on music in films, especially for its emphasis on the relations between aesthetics and the production contexts. Equally important is the explicit challenge towards the hegemony of mainstream Hollywood cinema.' - Lee Marshall, University of Bristol UK, Journal of Popular Music

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Aberystwyth, UK

    K. J. Donnelly

About the author

K.J DONNELLY lectures in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Pop Music in British Cinema (2001) and The Spectre of Sound (2005), and editor of Film Music: Critical Approaches (2001).

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation