12Blending image and music in Jim Jarmusch’s cinema
Watching Jim Jarmusch’s films is always listening to them. The importance of music is rooted in Jim Jarmusch’s creative process and in his formative years in the 1970s in Downtown New York since he was part of the Punk movement (Suarez 2007: 16; Rombes 2005: 5–6), which was egalitarian, anti-establishment, and even opposed to learning. We want here to, first of all, retrace the ideological and artistic implications of Jim Jarmusch’s formative years. Then in the second part we will show how in his films he considers music and the other matters of expression (Hjemslev quoted by Aumont et al. 2004: 137) as being equally important and interdependent. Eventually we contend that ...
