Melodrama, Cinema, and the Mechanization of Emotions
In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), ...
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Peelander Z : Performing Comic Action Punk in the 21st Century
“We are not Japanese, we are not Americans, we are not human beings, we came from planet Peelander” yelled Kengo Hioki at the terrace of the Elysium...
The Compilation Score of The Children of Men(2006)
Although the practice of building a film music score by selecting a number of pre-recorded songs has been well established since the 1970s, this method of “comp...
After SXSW 2012
The last 10 days have been full of cultural activities here in Austin due to the annual SXSW conference/festival. The town-city of Austin transforms, for few da...
Cuuuuuuuuuumbia Digital: Transnational Cumbia, Deejay Culture and Digital Technology
The journey of cumbia, a rhythm from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, across the Americas is an interesting example of the power of Caribbean music to transcend...
Dancing and Blurring Public/Private Space: New Year’s Eve in Cartagena de Indias
I have been back in my homeland, Colombia, and I have been on the road and on the streets re-visiting some towns and cities. I received the new year 2012 in Car...
Documentary Storytelling According to Les Blank
It is rare to find film documentaries that are narrator-less and avoid having a first person point of view. Even more rare, is to find documentaries that are at...