Film Matters is pleased to bring you an exciting multimedia collaboration between professor and undergraduate student at Ursinus College, Scoring Night and the City. Professor Jennifer Fleeger and Jordan Scharaga have produced an insightful compare-and-contrast commentary on the scoring differences between the two versions of Jules Dassin’s Night and the City (1950) — both of which you can view on Criterion’s 2015 Blu-ray release. We hope to see more collaborations like this in future and thank Fleeger and Scharaga for their work!
Author Biographies
Jennifer Fleeger is an assistant professor in the Media and Communication Studies Department at Ursinus College. She is the author of two books: Sounding American (Oxford UP, 2014) explores the importance of opera and jazz during the conversion to sound in Hollywood and Mismatched Women (Oxford UP, 2014) examines the connection between women who don’t sound like they look and new technologies for recording and visualizing music, from Trilby and the phonograph to Susan Boyle and the internet. She has published articles and reviews in Camera Obscura; Music, Sound, and the Moving Image; Quarterly Review of Film and Video; and Popular Music and Society.
Jordan Scharaga is a junior Media and Communications major and eager film minor at Ursinus College. Her love of film began at the early age of three when she would watch The Philadelphia Story with her mother. She looks forward to pursuing her interest in film through both scholarly and production-related outlets.
