The Cambridge companion to film music /
Film music
edited by Mervyn Cooke and Fiona Ford.
- First Edition.
- xxi, 411 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
- Cambridge companions to music .
- Cambridge companions to music. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-394) and index.
Part one : Making film music. Evolving practices for film music and sound, 1925-1935 / "Pictures that talk and sing" : sound history and technology / The composer and the studio : Korngold and Warner Bros. / Can't buy me love? : economic imperatives and artistic achievements in the British pop-music film / "A film's first audience" : the composer's role in film and television / James Buhler and Hannah Lewis -- David Cooper -- Ben Winters -- Stephen Glynn -- George Fenton in conversation with Mervyn Cooke. Part two : Approaching film music. Film-music theory / Studying film scores : working in archives and with living composers / Returning to Casablanca / Parental guidance advised? : mash-ups and mating penguins in Happy feet / Materializing film music / Guido Heldt -- Kate Daubney -- Peter Franklin -- Fiona Ford -- Miguel Mera. Part three : Genre and idiom. Film noir and music / Another other history of jazz in the movies / Horror and science fiction / The Western / The music of screen musicals / "Britannia-The musical" : scores, songs and soundtracks in British animation / David Butler -- Krin Gabbard -- Stan Link -- Robynn J. Stilwell -- Caryl Flinn -- Paul Wells. Part four : Music in world cinemas. Leone, Morricone and the Italian way to Revisionist Westerns / Music, noise and silence in the late cinema of Jean-Luc Godard / $r Danae Stefanou -- Hans Werner Henze and The lost honour of Katharina Blum / Welcome to Kollywood : Tamil film music and popular culture in South India / Sergio Miceli -- Annette Davison -- $t Tåoru Takemitsu's collaborations with Masahiro Shinoda : the music for Pale flower, Samurai spy and Ballad of Orin / Timothy Koozin -- Mekala Padmanabhan.
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.