The Spectre of Sound: Music in Film and Television - Music in Film and Television (Paperback, 2005 Ed.)

This book is a major new study - dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and ephemeral character of film music dealing not only with traditional orchestral film music, but also looks at film music's colonisation of television, and discusses pop music in relation to films, and the historical dimensions to ability to possess audiences that have so many important cultural and aesthetic effects. It challenges the dominant but limited conception of film music as restricted to film by looking at its use in television and influence in the world of pop music and the traditional restriction of analysis to 'valued' film music, either from 'name' composers' or from the 'golden era' of Classical Hollywood. Focusing on areas as diverse as horror, pop music in film, ethnic signposting, television drama and the soundtrack without a film- this is an original study which expands the range of writing on the subject.

General

Imprint:	Bfi Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Kevin Donnelly
Dimensions:	233 x 173 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	2005 Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-84457-026-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	1-84457-026-6
Barcode:	9781844570263

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