Publication

2016 - Cambridge University Press, England

Language

English

Word Count

102,750 words, Guess

Page Count

411 pages

Identifiers

and 9 more
  • ISBN-139781107476493
  • ISBN-139781316146781
  • AmazonB01KG54GO4
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016026629
  • OCLC Control Number951557385
  • Better World Books9781107094512
  • Better World Books9781107476493
  • Better World Books9781316146781
  • Open LibraryOL27233268M

Classifications

  • DDC781.5/42
  • LCCML2075 .C3545 2016
  • LCCML2075.C3545 2016

Alternate Titles

  • Film music

Description

His 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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cambridge companions to music

Other Editions

  • The Cambridge companion to film musicCambridge University Press2016-01-01

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