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Danny Elfman's Batman - A Film Score Guide (Paperback, New)
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Danny Elfman's Batman - A Film Score Guide (Paperback, New)
Series: Film Score Guides
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Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful,
interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music
composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection
with his collaboration with Tim Burton on his films including
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989),
Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare before Christmas (1993),
and Sleepy Hollow (1999). In addition to this, Elfman has composed
music for more than 40 other films, including Somersby (1993),
Dolores Claibourne (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Men in Black
(1997), and Spiderman (2002). Beetlejuice was the first mainstream
commercial success of the collaboration, but Batman was the film
which marked Tim Burton's arrival as a major figure in Hollywood
film direction, and equally established Danny Elfman as a film
score composer, particularly in relation to action and fantasy
genres. The score for Batman won a Grammy in 1989 and is an
outstanding example of his collaboration with Burton as well as
admirably demonstrating his particular talents and distinctive
compositional voice. In particular, it displays the characteristic
"darkness" of his orchestration in this genre and the means he uses
to create a full length film score from what is often a relatively
small amount of musical material, in this case the famous Batman
theme. This book examines Elfman's scoring technique and provides a
detailed analysis and commentary on the Batman score. The film is
discussed in the context of its comic-book origins and the
fantasy-action genre, setting it and its score against the late
1970s and early 1980s equivalents such as Star Wars and Superman,
and revealing how Burton and Elfman between them changed the
cinematic idea of what a superhero is. The book also explores
Elfman's musical background, his place within the film music
industry and the controversy that sprang up following the release
of B
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