The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

ISBN-13: 9781107476493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 438 str.

Opis

A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

Recenzje

'… 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

Spis treści

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.