{"id":1552,"date":"2011-09-11T22:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T22:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulj.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/teaching\/reinventions\/?page_id=1552"},"modified":"2020-08-22T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:08:57","slug":"pre-existing-music-in-film","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paulj.myzen.co.uk\/blog\/teaching\/reinventions\/lectures\/pre-existing-music-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"6: Pre-Existing Music in Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2001\"The lecture will focus on the use of pre-existing music in film, a practice that has taken a great variety of different forms from the early days of cinema to contemporary Hollywood. Ranging from the borrowing of well-known classical works to accompany silent films, to the very audible influence of the late-nineteenth century idiom on the soundtracks of Hollywood’s golden age movies, the use of pre-existing music remains ubiquitous. Our consideration of such practices will particularly focus on the way in which such music contributes to, or extends an intertextual reading of films, providing references to previous films as well as to cultural events originating outside the cinema auditorium.<\/p>\n

Preparatory Reading<\/h2>\n