Off the planet
Subtitle: music, sound and science fiction cinema
By: edited by Philip Hayward.
Contributors: Hayward, Philip.
Publisher: John Libbey; Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Motion picture music -- History and criticism.; Motion pictures -- Sound effects -- History.; Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sci fidelity : music, sound and genre history -- Philip Hayward; title: Hooked on aetherophonics : The day the earth stood still -- Rebecca Leydon; title: Atomic overtones and primitive undertones : Akira Ifukube's sound design for Godzilla -- Shuhei Hosokawa; title: Forbidden planet : effects and affects in the electro avant garde -- Rebecca Leydon; title: The transmolecularisation of [Black] folk : Space is the place, Sun Ra and afrofuturism -- Nabeel Zuberi; title: Nostalgia, masculinist discourse, and authoritarianism in John Williams' scores for Star wars and Close encounters of the third kind -- Neil Lerner; title: Sound and music in the Mad Max trilogy -- Rebecca Coyle; title: "These are my nightmares" : music and sound in the films of David Cronenberg -- Paul Théberge; title: Ambient soundscapes in Blade runner -- Michael Hannan ; -- Melissa Carey; title: I'll be back : recurrent sonic motifs in James Cameron's Terminator films -- Karen Collins; title: Inter-planetary soundclash : music, technology and territorialisation in Mars attacks! -- Philip Hayward; title: Mapping the Matrix : virtual spatiality and the realm of the perceptual -- Mark Evans.