A History of Film Music
- Author: Cooke, Mervyn
Cooke writes accessibly yet with as much intellectual rigor on the propagandistic songs of Shostakovich as on MTV's impact on Flashdance. ... Crammed with source acknowledgement for further reading,... — More…
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1. The 'silent' cinema
- 2. Sound on track
- 3. Hollywood's Golden Age: narrative cinema and the classical film score
- 4. Stage and screen
- 5. The mainstream divides: postwar horizons in Hollywood
- 6. 'Never let it be mediocre': film music in the United Kingdom
- 7. Defectors to television
- 8. Film music in France
- 9. Global highlights
- 10. Popular music in the cinema
- 11. Classical music in the cinema
- 12. State of the art: film music since the New Hollywood
- Bibliography
- Index of film titles
- General index.