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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 January 2017
      08 December 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316146781
      9781107094512
      9781107476493
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316146781
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1kg, 438 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.87kg, 438 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Film, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Book description

    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.

    Reviews

    '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 Source: CHOICE

    '… a fine addition to the film music literature. … Particularly successful is the combinationof 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 Source: Popular Music

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