Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Do The Eisenstein Thing: The Audiovisual in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) 2. Double Echoes: Music and Sound in David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997) 3. Audiovisual Irony, Terror, Ecstasy: David Lean:This Happy Breed (1944), Alfred Hitchcock: The Birds (1963), Werner Herzog: Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) 4. Where’s The Film Composer?: Music, Image and Sound in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 – a Space Odyssey (1968) 5. Filmic Choreographies: A Backward Glance: John and James Whitney, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Busby Berkeley 6. Maya Deren - Meshes of the Audiovisual: Music, Image and Sound in Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1959) 7. The Audiovisual Imagination Beyond the European Tradition: Satyajit Ray: Devi (1960), Kaneto Shindo: Onibaba (1964), Akira Kurosawa: Throne of Blood (1957) 8. Sonic Art, Digital Cinema - Chris H. Lynn: A Trilogy of Summer (2010-2012) 9. Two Films With Little Music: Fritz Lang: M (1931), Alfred Hitchcock: Rope (1948) 10. The Audiovisual in Three Found Footage Films: Dziga Vertov: Three Songs of Lenin (1934), Bruce Conner: Crossroads (1976), Jack Chambers: Hart of London (1968-1970) 11. Two Audiovisual Collages: Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Gospel According to Matthew (1964), Sergei Paradjanov: The Legend of the Surami Fortress (1984) 12. ‘The echo of many voices’: Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) 13. Three Russians, the Audiovisual, and the Long Take: Sergei Eisenstein: Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944), Andrey Tarkovsky: The Sacrifice (1986), Alexander Sokurov: Mother and Son (1997) 14. Empedocles, Intertransparency and the Leaping Elements: Robert Robertson and Dennis Dracup: Empedocles (1995) 15. Diary of a Music/Film: Robert Robertson: Oserake and The River That Walks (2002) Notes Bibliography

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Robert Robertson combines theory and practice in presenting cinema as an audiovisual medium, based on Eisenstein’s ideas on the montage of music, image and sound

About the Author

Robert Robertson is a composer and filmmaker, and the author of Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination (I.B. Tauris, 2015), Eisenstein on the Audiovisual (I.B. Tauris, 2009, 2011), winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Prize, 2010. For more details, see Robert Robertson, British Music Collection.