Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image by Nicolas Pillai

Nicolas Pillai’s study of jazz in film and television arrives at a time when jazz is making an impressive and perhaps unexpected comeback in popular culture; films like Miles Ahead (2016), Don Cheadle’s genre-bending biopic on the life of Miles Davis, Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker biopic Born to Be Bl...

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Main Author: Anthony Ballas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2019-01-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
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Online Access:http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue16/HTML/ReviewBallas.html
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Summary:Nicolas Pillai’s study of jazz in film and television arrives at a time when jazz is making an impressive and perhaps unexpected comeback in popular culture; films like Miles Ahead (2016), Don Cheadle’s genre-bending biopic on the life of Miles Davis, Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker biopic Born to Be Blue (2016), Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash (2014) and La La Land (2016), both of which contended at the Oscars, as well as a handful of jazz documentaries such as Jaco (2014), Chasing Trane (2016) and I Called Him Morgan (2016) have been recently released and made available on Netflix.
ISSN:2009-4078