Timothy E. Scheurer

Music and Mythmaking in Film

Genre and the Role of the Composer

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Produktbeschreibung

This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an analysis of the major narrative and scoring conventions of a particular genre and concludes with an in-depth analysis of two film examples from different time periods. Several photographic stills and sheet music excerpts are included throughout the work, along with a select bibliography and discography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780786431908
• ISBN-10: 0786431903
• Artikelnr.: 23018245

Autorenporträt

Timothy E. Scheurer is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. He has taught literature and popular culture courses for over 20 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Part One: Major Genres     
1 Introduction: Film Genre/Film Music     
2 Alien Harmonies: The Science Fiction Film     
3 Music for the Mean Streets: The Hardboiled-Detective Film     
4 Swashbuckling Symphonies: The Historical Romance Film     
5 The Rhythm of the Range: The Western Film Score     
6 From Swan Lake to Synthesizers: The Music of Horror Films     
Part Two: Gender/Genre: Heroism in Sports Films and the Woman's Film     
7 "The best there ever was in the game": Musical Mythopoesis and Heroism in
Film Scores of Recent Sports Movies     
8 "I always thought I was": Heroism and Music in Three Women's Films     
Discography     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index