Covering titles ranging from Rocketship X-M (1950) to Wall-E (2008), these insightful essays measure the relationship between music and science fiction film from a variety of academic perspectives. Thematic sections survey specific compositions utilized in science fiction movies; Broadway's relationship with the genre; science fiction elements in popular songs; the conveyance of subjectivity and identity through music; and such individual composers as Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Bernard Herrmann (The Day the Earth Stood Still).
Covering titles ranging from Rocketship X-M (1950) to Wall-E (2008), these insightful essays measure the relationship between music and science fiction film from a variety of academic perspectives. Thematic sections survey specific compositions utilized in science fiction movies; Broadway's relationship with the genre; science fiction elements in popular songs; the conveyance of subjectivity and identity through music; and such individual composers as Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Bernard Herrmann (The Day the Earth Stood Still).Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mathew J. Bartkowiak is a former associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies at Michigan State University.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction -Mathew J. Bartkowiak PART I. "OPEN THE POD DOOR, HAL": A SURVEY OF MUSIC'S ROLE IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM 1. A Familiar Sound in a New Place: The Use of the Musical Score Within the Science Fiction Film -Cara Marisa Deleon 2. A Popular Avant-Garde: The Paradoxical Tradition of Electronic and Atonal Sounds in Sci-Fi Music Scoring -Lisa M. Schmidt PART II. "GIVE MY REGARDS TO THE BARYCENTER": BROADWAY'S RELATION TO SCIENCE FICTION FILM 3. "Hello WALL-E!": Nostalgia, Utopia, and the Science Fiction Musical -Kathryn A.T. Edney and Kit Hughes 4. Just Imagine: The Musical Effacement of Dystopia in an Early Sound Film -Katherine Spring PART III. BECOMING THE STAR-CHILD: MUSIC AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY 5. Ambient Reverberations: Diegetic Music, Science Fiction, and Otherness -Seth Mulliken 6. Sci-Fi Film and Sounds of the Future -Matthias Konzett PART IV. MOON/SPOON/CROON: SCIENCE FICTION AND POPULAR MUSIC 7. "It's Hip to Be Square": Rock and Roll and the Future -Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper 8. The Intergalactic Lounge: Barbarella and Hearing the Future -Mathew J. Bartkowiak 9. Proposing an Alter-Destiny: Science Fiction in the Art and Music of Sun Ra -Jerome J. Langguth PART V. "ALL THOSE MOMENTS": INSTANCES THAT SHAPED OUR AUDITORY FUTURE 10. Suspended Motion in the Title Scene from The Day the Earth Stood Still
-Stephen Husarik 11. Strauss, Kubrick and Nietzsche: Recurrence and Reactivity in the Dance of Becoming That Is 2001: A Space Odyssey -Gregg Redner PART VI. "SETTING THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN": COMPOSERS AND COMPOSITIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM 12. Rocketship X-M: The Sounds of a Martian Breeze -John C. Tibbetts 13. Seeing Beyond His Own Time: The Sounds of Jerry Goldsmith -Cynthia J. Miller About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction -Mathew J. Bartkowiak PART I. "OPEN THE POD DOOR, HAL": A SURVEY OF MUSIC'S ROLE IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM 1. A Familiar Sound in a New Place: The Use of the Musical Score Within the Science Fiction Film -Cara Marisa Deleon 2. A Popular Avant-Garde: The Paradoxical Tradition of Electronic and Atonal Sounds in Sci-Fi Music Scoring -Lisa M. Schmidt PART II. "GIVE MY REGARDS TO THE BARYCENTER": BROADWAY'S RELATION TO SCIENCE FICTION FILM 3. "Hello WALL-E!": Nostalgia, Utopia, and the Science Fiction Musical -Kathryn A.T. Edney and Kit Hughes 4. Just Imagine: The Musical Effacement of Dystopia in an Early Sound Film -Katherine Spring PART III. BECOMING THE STAR-CHILD: MUSIC AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY 5. Ambient Reverberations: Diegetic Music, Science Fiction, and Otherness -Seth Mulliken 6. Sci-Fi Film and Sounds of the Future -Matthias Konzett PART IV. MOON/SPOON/CROON: SCIENCE FICTION AND POPULAR MUSIC 7. "It's Hip to Be Square": Rock and Roll and the Future -Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper 8. The Intergalactic Lounge: Barbarella and Hearing the Future -Mathew J. Bartkowiak 9. Proposing an Alter-Destiny: Science Fiction in the Art and Music of Sun Ra -Jerome J. Langguth PART V. "ALL THOSE MOMENTS": INSTANCES THAT SHAPED OUR AUDITORY FUTURE 10. Suspended Motion in the Title Scene from The Day the Earth Stood Still
-Stephen Husarik 11. Strauss, Kubrick and Nietzsche: Recurrence and Reactivity in the Dance of Becoming That Is 2001: A Space Odyssey -Gregg Redner PART VI. "SETTING THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN": COMPOSERS AND COMPOSITIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION FILM 12. Rocketship X-M: The Sounds of a Martian Breeze -John C. Tibbetts 13. Seeing Beyond His Own Time: The Sounds of Jerry Goldsmith -Cynthia J. Miller About the Contributors Index
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