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1. The Music Documentary

   Acid Rock to Electropop

   Edited by Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Music in Science Fiction Television

   Tuned to the Future

   Edited by K.J. Donnelly, Philip Hayward

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The music for science fiction television programs, like music for science fiction films, is often highly distinctive, introducing cutting-edge electronic music and soundscapes. There is a highly particular role for sound and music in science fiction, because it regularly has to expand the vistas...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Music, Sound and Filmmakers

   Sonic Style in Cinema

   Edited by James Wierzbicki

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen brothers, Peter Greenaway,...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Music in the Western

   Notes From the Frontier

   By Kathryn Kalinak

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores: their history, their generic conventions, their operation as part of a narrative system, their functioning within individual filmic texts and their...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
5. Music in Television

   Channels of Listening

   Edited by James Deaville

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music in Television is a collection of essays examining television’s production of meaning through music in terms of historical contexts, institutional frameworks, broadcast practices, technologies, and aesthetics. It presents the reader with overviews of major genres and issues, as well as...

   Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Music in the Horror Film

   Listening to Fear

   Edited by Neil Lerner

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and music in horror film...

   Published December 15th 2009 by Routledge