When Music Takes Over in Film

SUMARIO. 1. Introduction // Part I. What the Musical Moment Can Do - Theoretical Approaches / 2. The Musical Moment, Counter-Memory, Oblivion / 3. The Crystal Song in four American Films from 2016 to 2018 / 4. Seriously Funny: Comedy, Performance and the Musical Moment in Toni Erdmann (2016) / 5. Experiencing Romance in Musical Moments // Part II. How the Musical Moment was Created – Musical Numbers in Silent Cinema / 6. Film’s First Musical Moment: The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, 1895 / 7. The Musical Moment in three Silent Films by Jacques Feyder: Narrative Vector or Emotional Catalyst? / 8. A Waltz Dream: Musical Moments in Silent Operetta Films / 9. Silent Movie Music(ians) on Screen: How Four Films Made Period Practices Audible and Visible // Part III. Musical Dis/Placements – Musical Moments in Global Cinema / 10. Musical Numbers in Bollywood Cinema's Homeland and Diaspora / 11. Envisioning Chinese Musicals in the Era of Sound: Sound Cinema, the Songstress, and the Emergence of Mandarin Chinese Film Musicals, 1920s-1930s / 12. De-Gendering Genre: Mayuzumi Toshiro's Avant-Garde Music in Popular Cinema / 13. Music in Nollywood Films: Schools of Thought and Performance Contexts / 14. Redemption Songs: Musical Moments in Flora Gomes’s Nha Fala (2002) and Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï (2001) / 15. “No hay nada que celebrar”: Migration, Violence, and Musical Moments in Luis Estrada’s El Infierno (2010).