Music and Cinema brings together leading scholars from musicology, music theory, film studies, and cultural studies to explore the importance of music in the cinematic construction of ideologies. The 15 essays include Songlines: Alternative Journeys in Contemporary European Cinema by Wendy Everett; Strategies of Remembrance: Music and History in the New German Cinema by Caryl Flinn; Designing Women: Art Deco, the Musical, and the Female Body by Lucy Fischer; Kansas City Dreamin': Robert Altman's Jazz History Lesson by Krin Gabbard; Disciplining Josephine Baker: Gender, Race, and the Limits of Disciplinarity by Kathryn Kalinak; Finding Release: Storm Clouds and The Man Who Knew Too Much by Murray Pomerance, and many more.