Romance and War/Music and Technology: From David Lean's Brief Encounter to His Lawrence of Arabia

Talk

when April 17, 2024 6:30‐8pm where NYUAD Campus, Conference Center Part of the "Distinguished Lecture in Music Studies" Series who NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
Open to the Public

Romance and War/Music and Technology: From David Lean's Brief Encounter to His Lawrence of Arabia

Please note: This event has been canceled.

This talk explores the connected themes of romance and war in two classic films by David Lean. Both films were highly charged in a post-Second World War context. They were about transports of love and the transportation of warring parties. What did it mean to make a British film for a newly emerging British film industry? How did this industry differ from that in America? How did the films play to an emerging sense of tourism and travel through British colonies? Most particularly, I explore the role of the new post-war technology that brought music into film as an indispensable part. How did the radio, for example, play to the transmission of music and news, or to a broadcast of information that brought the formal movement of film into a parallelism of tracks with the high speed and lines of a train, a plane, and an automobile?

Speaker
Lydia Goehr, Fred and Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities, Columbia University

Moderated by
Gwyneth Bravo, Assistant Professor of Music, NYUAD; Global Global Network Assistant Professor of Music, NYU

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