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A History Of Film Music

Catalogue No: 9780521811736
From silent cinema to the modern Hollywood blockbuster – a lively and international perspective on the history of film music.
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Mervyn Cooke


Mervyn Cooke provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant Hollywood practices but also offering an international perspective by including case studies of the national cinemas of the UK, France, India, Italy, Japan and the early Soviet Union. The book balances wide-ranging overviews of film genres, modes of production and critical reception with detailed non-technical descriptions of the interaction between image track and soundtrack in representative individual films. In addition to the central focus on narrative cinema, separate sections are also devoted to music in documentary and animated films, film musicals and the uses of popular and classical music in the cinema. The author analyses the varying technological and aesthetic issues that have shaped the history of film music, and concludes with an account of the modern film composer’s working practices.


Bibliographic Details


27 b/w illus.


Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. The silent cinema
  • 2. Sound on track
  • 3. Hollywoods Golden Age: narrative cinema and the classical film score
  • 4. Stage and screen
  • 5. The mainstream divides: postwar horizons in Hollywood
  • 6. Never let it be mediocre: film music in the United Kingdom
  • 7. Defectors to television: the documentary film
  • Animation
  • 8. Film music in France
  • 9. Global highlights: early sound films in the Soviet Union
  • India: Bollywood and beyond
  • From Italy to Little Italy
  • Japan
  • 10. Popular music in the cinema
  • 11. Classical music in the cinema
  • 12. State of the art: film music since the New Hollywood.
9780521811736

Specifications

Product Format
Book
Publication Date
25/09/2008
ISBN
9780521811736 (0521811732)
Language
English
Author
Mervyn Cooke