POP FICTION

POP FICTION
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Pop Fiction’s unique essays individually
consider one song within a cinematic context.
Unlike previous collected volumes about pop
music in film where a generalised approach
has been adopted, it offers instead a close
examination of these two most pervasive and
significant mediums in contemporary culture.
The collection introspects, assembling the pop
song into various guises and documenting
how individuals dissemble the multiple roles
that the pop song plays in all and one audiovisual
moment. The song as: ghost, role-play,
memory trigger, narrator, marketing device,
translator, alienator, membership rite, etc.
Within this tight structure, an international
range of authorities from
• film
• musicology
• audio-visual design
• contemporary art
• cultural studies
• sociology
• marketing
provide fresh insight into the film-song
combination. Additionally the book’s form
reduces the area of analysis to expose
differences and similarities between these
contrasting fields of study. [A postmodern
gesture wherein, through the reader, the
examiners become the examined.]
Innovative yet accessible, this exciting
document would appeal to students, lecturers
and researchers offering a diverse set of
models with which to investigate the
'ideogram' of image/text/sound - a
relationship which sits at the heart of most
cultural production. The book provides
beginners with comforting areas of familiarity
(pop song and film) while exploring respective
disciplines and inter-disciplinary practice in an
original manner.
Steve Lannin is senior lecturer in Graphic
Design at the Southampton Institute,
University College, and an audio-visual
design consultant for Corporate Sound ag,
Basel, Switzerland.
Matthew Caley is senior lecturer in Graphic
Communication at the University of
Wolverhampton, and a poet.
Contributors include: Anahid Kassabian, Jeff
Smith, Phil Powrie, Ian Inglis, Robynn J.
Stilwell, Morris B. Holbrook, Dave Beech,
Miguel Mera, Elizabeth C. Hirschman, John
Roberts, & David Toop.
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