Music and sound in documentary film - Rogers, Holly (Professor of music) (New York ; London : Routledge, 2015)
1. Resounding city films : Vertov, Ruttmann and early experiments with documentary sound aesthetics / Carolyn Birdsall -- 2. Sounding the world : the role of music and sound in early "talking" newsreels / James Deaville -- 3. Race, war, music and the problem of one tenth of our nation / Julie Hubbert -- 4. Music, science, and educational film in post-war Britain / Thomas F. Cohen -- 5. Reinventing the documentary : the early essay film soundtracks of Chris Marker / Orlene Denice McMahon -- 6. Water music : scoring the silent world / Mervyn Cooke -- 7. Music and the aesthetics of the recorded world : time, event and meaning in feature documentary / John Corner -- 8. Irish sea power : a new version of Man of Aran (2009/1934) / K.J. Donnelly -- 9. Excavating authenticity : surveying the indie rock-doc / Jamie Sexton -- 10. More than background : ambience and sound-design in contemporary art documentary film / Marion Leonard and Robert Strachan -- 11. Sonic ethnographies : Leviathan and new materialisms in documentary / Kara Selmin and Alanna Thain.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Documentary films -- History and criticism; Film soundtracks; Motion picture music -- History and criticism