Music in epic film
Subtitle: listening to spectacle
By: edited by Stephen C. Meyer
Series: Routledge music and screen media series; Routledge music and screen media series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781138915831; 9781138915824; 9781315690025
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Epic films; Motion picture music; History and criticism; Film composers
Description: As both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema. Including contributions from both established and emerging film music scholars, the ten essays in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle provide a cross-section of contemporary scholarship on the subject. They explore diverse topics, including the function of music in epic narratives, the socio-political implications of cinematic music, and the use of pre-existing music in epic films. Intended for students and scholars in film music, film appreciation, and media studies, the wide range of topics and the diversity of the films that the authors discuss make Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle an ideal introduction to the field of music in epic film.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Branding the franchise : music, opening credits, and the (corporate) myth of origin / James Buhler; title: Manufacturing the epic score : Hans Zimmer and the sounds of significance / Frank Lehman; title: Topoi and intertextuality : narrative function in Hans Zimmer's and Lisa Gerrard's music to Gladiator / Joakim Tillman; title: The politics of authenticity in Miklós Rózsa's score to El Cid / Stephen C. Meyer; title: From authenticity to anachronism : pre-existing music and "epic Englishness" in Elizabeth and Master and commander / Alexandra Wilson; title: Records, repertoire and rollerball : music and the auteur epic / Julie Hubbert; title: "The epic and intimately human" : contemplating Tara's theme in Gone with the wind / Nathan Platte; title: "We're the real countries" : songs as private musical territories in the epic romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, and The English patient / Todd Decker; title: Inverting the epic : the music of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven / Kirsten Yri; title: The western as national epic : musical persona and narrative distance in High noon / Jordan Carmalt Stokes.