Geoffrey Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4201-2889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Shape, Form, Colour’ … and Music
By employing Benjamin Britten to score films like Coal Face (1935) and Night Mail (1936), the 'father' of the documentary, Scotsman John Grierson, used music to emphasize the genre's potentially 'magical' qualities and ability to reveal deeper, more inspirational 'truths'. He later helped found the Films of Scotland Committee that made similar films to promote Scottish industry, notably Seawards the Great Ships (1960), scored by Iain Hamilton, an…
A Return to the Future or Forward to the Past
This article traces the literary origins of the 1945 'zero hour' concept and explores its relation and importance to post-war avant-garde music, as well as the power of its concomitant polemics. The apparent hegemony of the resulting total serialist music and its associated ideas of newness and history are questioned and then compared to the reaction against it in the 1960s, when radical ideas about man's relationship with, and understanding of, …
See It Happen. The Making of ITN
Spurious Christopher Gibbons
Spurious Christopher Gibbons
See It Happen. The Making of ITN
A Return to the Future or Forward to the Past
This article traces the literary origins of the 1945 'zero hour' concept and explores its relation and importance to post-war avant-garde music, as well as the power of its concomitant polemics. The apparent hegemony of the resulting total serialist music and its associated ideas of newness and history are questioned and then compared to the reaction against it in the 1960s, when radical ideas about man's relationship with, and understanding of, …
‘Shape, Form, Colour’ … and Music
By employing Benjamin Britten to score films like Coal Face (1935) and Night Mail (1936), the 'father' of the documentary, Scotsman John Grierson, used music to emphasize the genre's potentially 'magical' qualities and ability to reveal deeper, more inspirational 'truths'. He later helped found the Films of Scotland Committee that made similar films to promote Scottish industry, notably Seawards the Great Ships (1960), scored by Iain Hamilton, an…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Abstraction (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 works) · Environmental Science (1 works)