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Author:   David Neumeyer (Professor of Music Theory and Leslie Waggener Professor in Fine Arts, Professor of Music Theory and Leslie Waggener Professor in Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.111kg
ISBN:  

9780190250591

ISBN 10:   0190250593
Pages:   698
Publication Date:   12 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. Overview David Neumeyer PART 1: Film Music : Central Questions 2. Music and the Ontology of the Sound Film: The Classical Hollywood System James Buhler and David Neumeyer 3. Opera and Film Marcia Citron 4. Visual Representation of Film Sound as Analytical Tool Rick Altman 5. Film Music from the Perspective of Cognitive Science Annabel Cohen 6. Composing for Film: Hanns Eisler's Lifelong Film-Music Project Peter Schweinhardt and Johannes C. Gall, translated by Oliver Dahin 7. Ontological, Formal, and Critical Theories of Film Music and Sound James Buhler PART 2: Genre and Platform 8. Drawing a New Narrative for Cartoon Music Daniel Goldmark 9. Genre Theory and the Film Musical Cari McDonnell 10. ""The Tunes They are a-Changing"": Moments of Historical Rupture and Reconfiguration in the Production and Commerce of Music in Film Jeff Smith 11. The Compilation Soundtrack from the 1960s to the Present Julie Hubbert 12. The Origins of Musical Style in Video Games, 1977-1983 Neil Lerner PART 3: Interpretative Theory & Practice 13. Classical Music, Virtual Bodies, Narrative Film Lawrence Kramer 14. Gender, Sexuality, and the Soundtrack James Buhler 15. Psychoanalysis, Apparatus Theory, and Subjectivity James Buhler 16. Case Studies: Introduction Robynn Stilwell 17. (Case Study 1) The Order of Sanctity: Sound, Sight, and Suasion in DeMille's The Ten Commandments Mitchell Morris 18. (Case Study 2) Strange Recognitions and Endless Loops: Music, Media, and Memory in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys Julie McQuinn PART 4: Contemporary Approaches to Analysis 19. Transformational Theory and the Analysis of Film Music Scott Murphy 20. Listening in Film: Music/Film Temporality, Materiality and Memory Marianne Kielian-Gilbert 21. Auteurship and Agency in Television Music Ronald Rodman PART 5: Historical Issues 22. When the Music Surges: Melodrama and the Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Precedents for Film Music Style and Placement Michael Pisani 23. Audio-Visual Palimpsests: Resynchronizing Silent Films with ""Special"" Music Julie Brown 24. Performance Practices and Music in Early Cinema outside Hollywood Kathryn Kalinak 25. Performing Prestige: American Cinema Orchestras, 1910-1958 Nathan Platte"

Reviews

[O]ffers stimulating questions and music analyses. --CHOICE Taken as a whole, the book lives up to the expectations of the Oxford Handbook Series-it takes a very broad and interdisciplinary approach to evaluating the current state of the field...This volume is a must read for any scholar pursuing the serious study of music in film and other audiovisual media, and it will be of particular value to graduate students interested in film music studies. --Journal of the Society for American Music

[O]ffers stimulating questions and music analyses. CHOICE

For those studying film, music, or film music, The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies is essential and, if you are an aspiring film composer, this is a book you absolutely cannot miss. Ty Johnson, Film Matters [O]ffers stimulating questions and music analyses. CHOICE

Author Information

David Neumeyer is Marlene and Morton Meyerson Professor in Music and Professor of Music Theory in the School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books including, most recently, a textbook with James Buhler and Rob Deemer entitled Hearing the Movies (2010).

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