Hearing Film - Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music

Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. Also includes 11 musical examples.

List of contents

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Listen for Identifications: A Prologue 1. How Film Music Works 2. How Music Works in Film 3. A Woman Scored 4. At the Twilight's Last Scoring 5. Opening Scores Tracking Identifications: An Epilogue Appendices Works Cited Videos Cited Endnotes Index

About the author

Anahid Kassabian is Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Music at the University of Liverpool, James and Constance Alsop Chair, and Editor of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. She coedited the book Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity,Culture (1997) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on popular music, film music and feminist theory.

Summary

Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. Also includes 11 musical examples.

Product details

• Authors: Anahid Kassabian, Kassabian Anahid
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2000
• EAN: 9780415928533
• ISBN: 978-0-415-92853-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 530 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; History, Media Studies, MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, Humanities, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, Music of film and stage, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, The arts: general topics