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The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound

Edited By Miguel Mera, Ronald Sadoff, Ben Winters Copyright 2017
658 Pages
by Routledge

658 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

658 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The inclusive framework of "screen music and sound" allows readers to explore the intersections and connections between various types of... Read more

Introduction: Framing Screen Music and Sound (MIGUEL MERA, RONALD SADOFF, AND BEN WINTERS)





Part 1: Issues in the Study of Screen Music and Sound





1 The Ghostly Effect Revisited (K.J. DONNELLY)





2 Mystical Intimations, the Scenic Sublime, and the Opening of the Vault: De-classicizing the Late-romantic Revival in the Scoring of ‘New Hollywood’ Blockbusters c. 1977–1993 (PETER FRANKLIN)





3 Screen Music and the Question of Originality (MIGUEL MERA)





4 Affect, Intensities, and Empathy: Sound and Contemporary Screen Violence (LISA COULTHARD)





5 Balinese Music, an Italian Film, and an Ethnomusicological Approach to Screen Music and Sound (MICHAEL B. BAKAN)





6 Emphatic and Ecological Sounds in Gameworld Interfaces (KRISTINE JøRGENSEN)





7 "You Have to Feel a Sound for It to Be Effective": Sonic Surfaces in Film and Television (LUCY  FIFE DONALDSON)





8 Screen Music, Narrative, and/or Affect: Kieślowski’s Musical Bodies (NICHOLAS REYLAND)





9 Roundtable: Current Perspectives on Music, Sound, and Narrative in Screen Media (ANAHID KASSABIAN - convenor) with ELENA BOSCHI, JAMES BUHLER, CLAUDIA GORBMAN, MIGUEL MERA, ROGER MOSELEY, RONALD SADOFF, and BEN WINTERS





Part 2: Historical Approaches





10 Sound Design and Its Interactions with Music: Changing Historical Perspectives (DANIJELA KULEZIC-WILSON)





11 Dimensions of Game Music History (TIM SUMMERS)





12 The Changing Audio, Visual, and Narrative Parameters of Hindi Film Songs (ANNA MORCOM)





13 From Radio to Television: Sound Style and Audio Technique in Early TV Anthology Dramas (SHAWN VANCOUR)





14 Manifest Destiny, The Space Race, and

Biography

Miguel Mera is Reader in the Department of Music and Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) at City, University of London.





Ronald Sadoff is Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions in the Steinhardt School at New York University.





Ben Winters is Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK.

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