The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
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Part of Cambridge Companions to Music
- Editors:
- Mervyn Cooke, University of Nottingham
- Fiona Ford
- Date Published: December 2016
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107094512
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This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of specially-commissioned essays provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the many and various ways in which music functions in film soundtracks. Citing examples from a variety of historical periods, genres and film industries - including those of the USA, UK, France, Italy, India and Japan - the book's contributors are all leading scholars and practitioners in the field. They engage, sometimes provocatively, with numerous stimulating aspects of the history, theory and practice of film music in a series of lively discussions which will appeal as much to newcomers to this fascinating subject as to seasoned film music aficionados. Innovative research and fresh interpretative perspectives are offered alongside practice-based accounts of the film composer's distinctive art, with examples cited from genres as contrasting as animation, the screen musical, film noir, Hollywood melodrama, the pop music and jazz film, documentary, period drama, horror, science fiction and the Western.
Read more- Will serve as a stimulating introduction to the field for newcomers, as well as offering fresh research and interpretative angles to those familiar with film music scholarship
- Readers will acquire a comprehensive and holistic view of the subject in which the demands of working in the film industry inform our understanding of its musical practices
- Includes a wide coverage of international film music practices, including the film industries of the USA, UK, Italy, France, India and Japan
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'Going beyond new historical research on early film music, genre studies, and film music analysis, this diverse collection of current essays is ambitious. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' M. Goldsmith, CHOICE
See more reviews'… a fine addition to the film music literature. … Particularly successful is the combination of general overviews (historical, technological, theoretical, methodological) with case-study chapters that exemplify a range of approaches to examining soundtracks. This book could readily be offered to undergraduate and postgraduate students as a 'toolkit' to inspire and guide their own studies, and while the balance is towards musicological study, the relatively accessible tone and varied methodologies additionally make the book worthy of attention for those from other disciplines. The editors are to be commended for assembling a collection that represents much of the variety of modern film music scholarship.' Jonathan Godsall, Popular Music
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- Date Published: December 2016
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107094512
- length: 438 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 178 x 23 mm
- weight: 1kg
- contains: 23 b/w illus. 9 tables 26 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Mervyn Cooke and Fiona Ford
Part I. Making Film Music:
1. Evolving practices for film music and sound, 1925–35 James Buhler and Hannah Lewis
2. 'Pictures that talk and sing': sound history and technology David Cooper
3. The composer and the studio: Korngold and Warner Bros. Ben Winters
4. Can't buy me love? Economic imperatives and artistic achievements in the British pop music film Stephen Glynn
5. 'A film's first audience': the composer's role in film and television George Fenton in conversation with Mervyn Cooke
Part II. Approaching Film Music:
6. Film music theory Guido Heldt
7. Studying film scores: working in archives and with living composers Kate Daubney
8. Returning to Casablanca Peter Franklin
9. Parental guidance advised? Mash-ups and mating penguins in Happy Feet Fiona Ford
10. Materializing film music Miguel Mera
Part III. Genre and Idiom:
11. Film noir and music David Butler
12. Another other history of jazz in the movies Krin Gabbard
13. Horror and science fiction Stan Link
14. The Western Robynn J. Stilwell
15. The music of screen musicals Caryl Flinn
16. 'Britannia - The Musical': scores, songs and soundtracks in British animation Paul Wells
Part IV. Music in World Cinemas:
17. Leone, Morricone and the Italian way to revisionist westerns Sergio Miceli
18. Music, noise and silence in the late cinema of Jean-Luc Godard Danae Stefanou
19. Hans Werner Henze and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Annette Davison
20. Tōru Takemitsu's collaborations with Masahiro Shinoda: the music for Pale Flower, Samurai Spy and Ballad of Orin Tim Koozin
21. Welcome to Kollywood: Tamil film music and popular culture in South India Mekala Padmanabhan.
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