Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling

Richard Dyer

Bloomsbury Academic, Sep 15, 2010 - Performing Arts - 232 pages

The great Italian composer Nino Rota wrote some of the loveliest and most beloved of all film music, including The Godfather trilogy, Zeffirelli's Shakespeares and Fellini's masterpieces 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita. Richard Dyer's study of Rota's life and work provides a detailed account of Rota's aesthetic and of his unique genius.

About the author

Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College, London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has been honoured by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Stars (1979), White (1997), The Culture of Queers (2002), Nino Rota (BFI, 2010) and In the Space of a Song (2012), and he is the author of BFI Film Classics on 'Se7en' (1999), Brief Encounter (2002, 2015) and La Dolce Vita (2017).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling
• Author: Richard Dyer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010
• ISBN: 1844572099, 9781844572090
• Length: 232 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Music; Music / Individual Composer & Musician; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism