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Books by Caryl Flinn






Brass Diva(1st Edition)
The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman
by Caryl Flinn
Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-26022-1, ISBN: 0-520-26022-8

"Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of "La Merm" as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical in its golden age. Mining o ..."






Music and Cinema(1st Edition)
(Music / Culture)
by James Buhler, David Neumeyer, Caryl Flinn, Professor Caryl Flinn
Paperback, 405 Pages, Published 2000 by Wesleyan
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6411-5, ISBN: 0-8195-6411-7

"Music and Cinema brings together leading scholars from musicology, music theory, film studies, and cultural studies to explore the importance of music in the cinematic construction of ideologies. The 15 essays include “Songlines: Alternative Journeys in Contemporary European Cinema” by Wendy Everett; “Strategies of Remembrance: Music and History in the New German Cinema” by Caryl Flinn; “Designing Women: Art Deco, the Musical, and the ..."






The New German Cinema(1st Edition)
Music, History, and the Matter of Style
by Caryl Flinn
Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23823-7, ISBN: 0-520-23823-0

"When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity―national, political, personal, and sexual―music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music, a curious oversight given its importance to German culture and nation formation. Caryl Flinn’s study reverses this trend, identifying styles o ..."






The New German Cinema
Music, History, and the Matter of Style
by Caryl Flinn
Hardcover, 331 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22895-5, ISBN: 0-520-22895-2

"When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity—national, political, personal, and sexual—music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music, a curious oversight given its importance to German culture and nation formation. Caryl Flinn’s study reverses this trend, identifying styles o ..."






The Sound of Music
(BFI Film Classics)
by Caryl Flinn
Paperback, 105 Pages, Published 2015 by British Film Institute
ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-474-2, ISBN: 1-84457-474-1

"Fifty years after its release, The Sound of Music (1965) remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Quickly consolidating its cultural authority, the Hollywood film soon eclipsed the German film and Broadway musical that preceded it to become one of the most popular cultural reference points of the twenty-first century.In this fresh exploration, Caryl Flinn foregrounds the film's iconic musical numbers, arguing ..."






Strains of Utopia(1st Edition)
by Caryl Flinn
Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1992 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00619-2, ISBN: 0-691-00619-9

"When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argue ..."






Strains of Utopia
Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music
by Caryl Flinn
212 Pages, Published 1992 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2065-8, ISBN: 1-4008-2065-0

"6. Guy Rosolato, “Répétitions,” Musique-en-jeu no. 9 (November 1972): 39. 7. See Guy Rosolato, “La voix: Entre corps et langage,” Révue française de psychanalyse 38 (January 1974): 75–94. 8. Ibid., p. 81. 9. Ibid., p. 83. Jean- François Lyotard stresses this same connection, arguing that “tonal music belongs to the fantasmatic scene.” See “Plusieurs silences,” Musique-en-jeu no. 9 (November 1972): 64–76. 10. Rosolato, “Répétitions,” ..."






Strains of Utopia
Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music
by Caryl Flinn
205 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-608-07135-0, ISBN: 0-608-07135-8

"Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argues that films tended to link music to the sense of an idealized, lost past."






Music and Cinema
(Music / Culture)
by James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, David Neumeyer
Hardcover, 405 Pages, Published 2000 by Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6410-8, ISBN: 0-8195-6410-9

"Examines the role of music in motion picture films and its influence on the formation of cinematic ideologies."






Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind
Tampering with Myths (Out of the Archives)
by Flinn, Caryl
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2023 by University Of Michigan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-03939-5, ISBN: 0-472-03939-3

"Amply illustrated with frame enlargements and set photographs, this book uncovers new production stories and reception contexts of a film that Flinn argues deserves a place in the limelight."






Strains of Utopia
Gender Nostalgia and Hollywood Film Music
by Caryl Flinn
Unbound, 195 Pages, Published by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-0236-4, ISBN: 1-4008-0236-9






Strains of Utopia
Gender Nostalgia and Hollywood Film Music
by Caryl Flinn
Unbound, 195 Pages, Published by Princeton University Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-0237-1, ISBN: 1-4008-0237-7






BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Sound of Music
by Caryl Flinn
112 Pages, Published 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-910-5, ISBN: 1-84457-910-7

"... fare such as Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate. Within a more global context, the mid-1960s gave rise to innumerable young 'new waves' from Central and ... As Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, The Sound of Music had 'set the musical film back 20 years'.15 The revolts, protests and upheavals of the 1960s – the context to which The Sound of Music either turned a blind eye or repudiated – took a toll on classical musica ..."






Brass Diva
The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman
by Caryl Flinn
556 Pages, Published 2007 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92725-4, ISBN: 0-520-92725-7

"fectly cast), who actually prefers the jail. ... Merman's numbers, "Ridin' High," " Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor," "You're a Bad Influence on Me," "Red, Hot and Blue," and, ... the ghost of Ethel and Porter's previous "gangster musical, Anything Goes" was "haunting the makers of Red, Hot, and Blue, to their disadvantage."






New German Cinema
Music, History, and the Matter of Style
by Caryl Flinn
Published 2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93715-4, ISBN: 0-520-93715-5






The New German Cinema
Music, History, and the Matter of Style
by Caryl Flinn
Published 2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-4175-2002-2, ISBN: 1-4175-2002-7






Strains of Utopia
Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music
by Caryl Flinn
Published 1992
ISBN-13: 978-1-282-75154-5, ISBN: 1-282-75154-9






Brass Diva(1st Edition)
The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman
by Caryl’ Flinn
Hardcover, 556 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22942-6, ISBN: 0-520-22942-8






The Sound of Music
by Caryl Flinn
137 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-83902-059-9, ISBN: 1-83902-059-8

"Stressing the unique emotional bond audiences establish with The Sound of Music, Flinn traces the film's prehistories, its place amongst the tumultuous political, social and cultural events of the 1960s, and its spirited afterlife among ..."






Strains of Utopia
Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music (Princeton Paperbacks)
by Caryl Flinn
Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 1992 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-04801-7, ISBN: 0-691-04801-0

" When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn ar ..."



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