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Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music

Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music

Caryl Flinn

Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argues that films tended to link music to the sense of an idealized, lost past.
The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style

The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style

Caryl Flinn

This is a remarkably innovative, transformative, and important work."—Patrice Petro, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism & Film History "Using the musical soundtrack as her 'Auftakt,' Caryl Flinn revisits melodrama and melancholia, ...
Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music ...

Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music ...

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'David Neumeyer. with Caryl Flinn and James Buhler, "Introduction," in Music and Cinema, ed. James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press. 2000I, l-29. the one thing musicology, film-music ...
The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

Caryl Flinn

Stressing the unique emotional bond audiences establish with The Sound of Music, Flinn traces the film's prehistories, its place amongst the tumultuous political, social and cultural events of the 1960s, and its spirited afterlife among ...
Wagner Outside the Ring: Essays on the Operas, Their ...

Wagner Outside the Ring: Essays on the Operas, Their ...

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James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer (Wesleyan University Press, 2000): 58–84, here 58. 25. Quoted in David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode ofProduction to 1960 ...
Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema

Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema

Daniel Goldmark

10. Martin Marks, “Music, Drama, Warner Brothers: The Cases of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon,” in Music and Cinema, ed. James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000), p. 174.
Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

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Caryl Flinn It took just a few years for Tom Tykwer's 1998 hit Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) to generate enough conference talks, papers, and academic referencing to effectively create even more variations of the film's already thrice- told tale.
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary ...

Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary ...

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... clear the investment in performance. The film, which documents a Harlem subculture of gay Latino and Black men, shows the men attending elaborate balls ; there, dressed in 429 Containing Fire Performance in Paris Is Burning Caryl Flinn.
Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

Caryl Flinn

A comprehensive biography of the life and career of American star of stage and film musicals, Ethel Merman, that chronicles her childhood, family, early film appearances, and success in the entertainment industry.
The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies

David Neumeyer

2000. “Inventing the Cinema Soundtrack: Hollywood's Multiplane Sound System.” In Music and Cinema, edited by James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer, 339–359. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Appadurai, Arjun.
Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music

Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music

Matthew Rahaim

... by Susan Boyntonand RoeMin Kok Music and Cinema edited by James Buhler , Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer Listening andLonging: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum by Daniel Cavicchi My Music by SusanD. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi  ...
Music and Mythmaking in Film: Genre and the Role of the Composer

Music and Mythmaking in Film: Genre and the Role of the Composer

Timothy E. Scheurer

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985, 1992. Buhler, James. “Star Wars, Music, and Myth.” In Music and Cinema, ed. James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer, pp. 33–57. Hanover: Wes- leyan University Press, 2000. Buhler , James ...
Caryl Phillips' Cambridge - the Ambiguity of a Slave's ...

Caryl Phillips' Cambridge - the Ambiguity of a Slave's ...

Marylise Thill

In this essay, we will mainly focus on one author that belongs to this wave, namely Caryl Phillips.
Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips

Dr. Helen Thomas

This study presents a critical examination of Caryl Phillips' fictional and non-ficional explorations of the 'black diaspora'.
Final Passage

Final Passage

Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s.
The Final Passage

The Final Passage

Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s.
Beastly

Beastly

Alex Flinn

With a new Beauty and the Beast movie hitting theaters in spring 2017, it’s time to catch up on all things Beastly. Find out what it was like for the beast in Alex Flinn’s contemporary retelling of the classic tale. I am a beast.
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, laughter and ...

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, laughter and ...

Kathleen Flinn

THE SHARPER YOUR KNIFE, THE LESS YOU CRY is the touching and remarkably funny account of Flinn's transformation as she moves through the school's intense programme and falls deeply in love along the way.
The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin

The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin

Caryl Emerson

"Caryl Emerson has given us a major book on a major phenomenon, as readable as it is important, one that moves authoritatively from biography through literary and philosophical analysis to the cultural frameworks in which those matters take ...
Higher Ground

Higher Ground

Caryl Phillips

In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity.
Joe Orton: A Casebook

Joe Orton: A Casebook

Francesca Coppa

Geraldine in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw Through our father, we love our queen and our God. — Give in Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine A number of interesting resonances exist between the work of Joe Orton and that of Caryl Churchill, one ...
Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, ...

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, ...

Caryl Emerson

Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.
Proceedings of the Board of Public Instruction of the City ...

Proceedings of the Board of Public Instruction of the City ...

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Second ballot, Peter J. Flinn, 6 votes ; Alden Chester, 2 votes ; Chas. E. Joues, 2 votes ; Herman Bendell, 1 vote ; and George B. Hoyt, 1 vote. No choice. Third ballot, Peter J. Flinn, 6 votes ; Alden Chester, 2 votes ; Chas. E. Jones, 2 votes ...
Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence

Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence

V. G. Julie Rajan

Mia Bloom and Christian Caryl, “The Truth about Dhanu: Letter to the Editor,” The New York Review ofBooks, 52(16), October 20, 2005, www.nybooks. com/articles /18369. Mia Bloom and Christian Caryl, “The Truth about Dhanu: Letter to ...
A Culture of Deference: Congress, the President, and the ...

A Culture of Deference: Congress, the President, and the ...

Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam

The Los Angeles Times, Editorial: "Shunning Iraq's Refugees," The Los Angeles Times (17 January 2007); Christian Caryl, "What About the Iraqis?" The New York Review of Books 54, No. 1 (1 1 January 2007). 508. Christian Caryl, "The Next ...
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

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Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond. I. ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND ... and internationally. Hence, wherever one looks the Churchillian landscape is ' frightening'. At Introduction: on Caryl Churchill ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND.

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