Sounds of the future
Subtitle: essays on music in science fiction film
By: edited by Mathew J. Bartkowiak
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780786444809
Description: "These essays measure the relationship between music and science fiction film from a variety of academic perspectives. Thematic sections survey compositions utilized in science fiction movies; Broadway's relationship with the genre; science fiction elements in popular songs; and composers such as Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Bernard Herrmann (The Day the Earth Stood Still)"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A familiar sound in a new place : the use of the musical score within the science fiction film / Cara Marisa Deleon; title: A popular avant-garde : the paradoxical tradition of electronic and atonal sounds in sci-fi music scoring / Lisa M. Schmidt; title: "Hello WALL-E!" Nostalgia, utopia, and the science fiction musical / Kathryn A.T. Edney and Kit Hughes; title: Just imagine : the musical effacement of dystopia in an early sound film / Katherine Spring; title: Ambient reverberations : diegetic music, science fiction, and otherness / Seth Mulliken; title: Sci-fi film and sounds of the future / Matthias Konzett; title: "It's hip to be square" : rock and roll and the future / Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper; title: The intergalactic lounge : Barbarella and hearing the future / Mathew J. Bartkowiak; title: Proposing an alter-destiny : science fiction in the art and music of Sun Ra / Jerome J. Langguth; title: Suspended motion in the title scene from The day the Earth stood still / Stephen Husarik; title: Strauss, Kubrick and Nietzsche : recurrence and reactivity in the dance of becoming that is 2001 : a space odyssey / Gregg Redner; title: Rocketship X-M : the sounds of a Martian breeze / John C. Tibbetts; title: Seeing beyond his own time : the sounds of Jerry Goldsmith / Cynthia J. Miller.