Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema

Book Overview

In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hierarchy of the visual over the aural, thereby rendering their hearing a complex and rich subject for analysis.

Screening songs... constitutes a ground-breaking,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784993476
• ISBN13: 9781784993474
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"