The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
- Editor: Cooke, Mervyn
- Editor: Ford, Fiona
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.... — More…
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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. Toru 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.