Jazz Noir

Listening to Music from "Phantom Lady" to "The Last Seduction"

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David Butler

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Hardback

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This volume explores the strange and commonly misunderstood relationship between jazz music and the film noire genre. Jazz has been associated with crime and immorality since early forms of the music were heard in the brothels of New Orleans and the ganster-owned clubs of the 1920s. This association encouraged the use of jazz in film noir, a genre preoccupied with tales of anxiety and urban decay, which flourished in American cinema during the postwar period. Making significant use of archival sources and documentation, this book seeks to examine this "collaboration", placing the films discussed in their proper historical context and utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that gives equal weight to the films - including such notables as "Phantom Lady", "I Want to Live!" and "Taxi Driver" - and to the indelible music that accompanied them.

Author Biography:

DAVID BUTLER teaches Film Studies at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Release date Australia

March 30th, 2002

Author

David Butler

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Interest Age

From 7 to 17 years

Pages

256

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780275973018

Product ID

7018298

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