Off Key

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In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how cwtain alliances between the music and film industries are judged aesthete failures. A provocaitve and politically conscious look at post-industrial culture, Off Key vi\\\ ^peal to students antTscholars of film music, cinema, media and cultural studies, and labor hi^ry. \
K^DIckinson is a Lecturer in Media and Cmnnunications eri Goldsmiths College, University of LoiWom She isi editor of Movie Music: The Fifm^eader (2002) ^tad co-editor of Teen TV: Genre, C^sumption and Identity (200A). \ _ .
"Written in a lively and engaging style, Off Key casts a spotlight on several dark corners of popular culture: Elvis Presley musicals, composer biopics, Italian horror films, Madohfia's acting career. Sifting through the various meanings of 'work,' Kay Dickinson argu^tt^at these misbegotten 'synergies' between the film and music businesses expose the lar^xj^res that extrude in the relation between capital and labor in the culture... Tovább

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In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how cwtain alliances between the music and film industries are judged aesthete failures. A provocaitve and politically conscious look at post-industrial culture, Off Key vi\\\ ^peal to students antTscholars of film music, cinema, media and cultural studies, and labor hi^ry. \
K^DIckinson is a Lecturer in Media and Cmnnunications eri Goldsmiths College, University of LoiWom She isi editor of Movie Music: The Fifm^eader (2002) ^tad co-editor of Teen TV: Genre, C^sumption and Identity (200A). \ _ .
"Written in a lively and engaging style, Off Key casts a spotlight on several dark corners of popular culture: Elvis Presley musicals, composer biopics, Italian horror films, Madohfia's acting career. Sifting through the various meanings of 'work,' Kay Dickinson argu^tt^at these misbegotten 'synergies' between the film and music businesses expose the lar^xj^res that extrude in the relation between capital and labor in the culture industry. Dickinsoms dialectical diagnoses are consistent with a truism in the entertainment business; you l^ac^V. much more from your crashing failures than you do from your soaring successes." \ —Jeff Smith, author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music \
"Elvis meets Eisenstein in Kay Dickinson's boldly original study of the ways in which songjand cinema often DON'T blend seamlessly. Once neglected but hating become a bit too fam|iar, the topic of film's relationship to popular miisic is made new again through Dickinson's wonderfully unexpected and suggestive explorations of the frequent mismatches in Ameris^n and British, cinema." \
—Corey K. Creekmnr, Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of Iowa
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"While film music gone awry is Off Key's central issue, Dickinson never leaves the labors of musicians and the cultural industries' wish to organize and negotiate them from the discussion. And this Is where Off Key is both most important and intelleptually challenging. By providing one of the most surprising, illuminating, and off-kilter reads thatfiilber film or popular music scholate have recently produced. Off Key not only explains why these pieces of detritus have washed up onto our media landscape but also gives us important insights into their cultural significahce. As a result, after encountering Off Key you will never be able ^ watch or listen to an Elws or Madonna movie the same way again."
—Tim J. Andersoinautlior of Making Easy Listening
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