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Songs in the Key of Cinema (10 posts found)
Mean Girls and Bad Boys: The Messy Gender Politics of “Grease” in 5 Songs
Grease is the word. Its first iteration was as a stage musical, conceived by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, first appearing on stage in Chicago in 1971, and then on Broadway in 1972. With book, music, and lyrics by Jacobs and Warren, the two tackled teenage life...
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Let’s Go Backwards When Forward Fails: Past Informs Present in “Everything Old is New Again” From “All That Jazz”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
In Bob Fosse’s All That J...
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Fight, Not Flight: The Sound and Fury of “Fight the Power” in “Do the Right Thing”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
Twenty-five years ago, Be...
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Out of the Cave: The Dark Magic of “O Children” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part I”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
While JK Rowling’s seminal...
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Every Little Tear: The Transcendent Beauty of “Crying” in “Mulholland Drive”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film. We’ll explore how a piece of music fits within the context of a film as a whole, and we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
Infamous for his abstra...
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Korine’s Angels: The Ironic Harmony of “Everytime” and “Spring Breakers”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film. We'll explore how a piece of music fits within the context of a film as a whole, and we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
There were snickers in ...
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The “World” As He Knows It: “Whole Wide World”, Perspective, and “Stranger Than Fiction”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
While Marc Forster’s Stra...
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Love, Ostentatiously: The Obsessive Infatuation of “Bang Bang” & “Pass This On” in “Heartbeats”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
It’s intoxicating. It has...
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She Thinks, Therefore She Becomes: The Catalytic Nature of “Don’t Think” in “Black Swan”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
“The only person standing...
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Inglorious Bastard: The Horror of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “A Clockwork Orange”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
I might have been eight or...
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