Filmmusik

The Oxford handbook of film music studies

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This book charts the interdisciplinary activity around music in visual media, addressing the primary areas of inquiry: history, genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation. Part I cover the range most broadly, from the relations of music and the soundtrack to op…

The Oxford handbook of film music studies

0 Type: Book

This book charts the interdisciplinary activity around music in visual media, addressing the primary areas of inquiry: history, genre and medium, analysis and criticism, and interpretation. Part I cover the range most broadly, from the relations of music and the soundtrack to op…

Film music

by Tonks, Paul

fromPocket essentials. Music

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Film music

by Tonks, Paul

fromPocket essentials

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Introductary guide to the world of film music that provides a concise history of almost a century of music and examines the significant milestones. Examines the most influential composers, which are the most popular scores, and which scores have best served a film and why. A use…

Popular music and the new auteur: visionary filmmakers after MTV

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Music videos widened the creative vocabulary of filmmaking, starting with the launch of MTV in 1981, and continuing through the expansion of cable TV and the proliferation of the PC and of digital video. This study looks at seven visionary directors, most of them American, who h…

Music in the horror film: listening to fear

by Lerner, Neil William

fromRoutledge music and screen media series

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"A collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. ... With contributions from scholars across the disciplines of music and film studies, these essays delve into blockbusters like The Exorcist,…

Music in the horror film: listening to fear

by Lerner, Neil William

fromRoutledge music and screen media series

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Collects the essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in the genre of horror film, address the presence of music in horror films and their potency within them, and delve into the films like "The Exorcist", "The Shining", "The Sixth Se…

Robert Altman's soundtracks: film, music, and sound from M*A*S*H to A prairie …

by Magee, Gayle Sherwood

fromOxford music/media series

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American director Robert Altman first came to national attention with the surprise blockbuster M*A*S*H (1970) and directed more than thirty feature films in subsequent decades until his death in 2006. In addition to his feature films, Altman worked in the emerging field of cable…

John Williams's film music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the…

by Audissino, Emilio

fromWisconsin film studies

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John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Aw…

John Williams's film music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the…

by Audissino, Emilio

fromWisconsin film studies

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John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Aw…

Composing for the red screen: Prokofiev and Soviet film

by Bartig, Kevin

fromOxford music/media series

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Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arg…