Download or read book Popular Music and the New Auteur written by Arved Ashby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Music and the New Auteur looks at seven contemporary directors whose feature films are characterized by music-video aesthetics. Demonstrating a fresh kind of cinematic musicality, these filmmakers write against music rather than against script, and allow pop songs a determining role in narrative and imagery.