The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

Contents

• Introduction Mervyn Cooke and Fiona Ford;
• Part I . Making Film Music:
• 1. Evolving practices for film music and sound, 1925-35 James Buhler and Hannah Lewis;
• 2. 'Pictures that talk and sing': sound history and technology David Cooper;
• 3. The composer and the studio: Korngold and Warner Bros. Ben Winters;
• 4. Can't buy me love? Economic imperatives and artistic achievements in the British pop music film Stephen Glynn;
• 5. 'A film's first audience': the composer's role in film and television George Fenton in conversation with Mervyn Cooke;
• Part II . Approaching Film Music:
• 6. Film music theory Guido Heldt;
• 7. Studying film scores: working in archives and with living composers Kate Daubney;
• 8. Returning to Casablanca Peter Franklin;
• 9. Parental guidance advised? Mash-ups and mating penguins in Happy Feet Fiona Ford;
• 10. Materializing film music Miguel Mera;
• Part III . Genre and Idiom:
• 11. Film noir and music David Butler;
• 12. Another other history of jazz in the movies Krin Gabbard;
• 13. Horror and science fiction Stan Link;
• 14. The Western Robynn J. Stilwell;
• 15. The music of screen musicals Caryl Flinn;
• 16. 'Britannia - The Musical': scores, songs and soundtracks in British animation Paul Wells;
• Part IV . Music in World Cinemas:
• 17. Leone, Morricone and the Italian way to revisionist westerns Sergio Miceli;
• 18. Music, noise and silence in the late cinema of Jean-Luc Godard Danae Stefanou;
• 19. Hans Werner Henze and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Annette Davison;
• 20. Toru Takemitsu's collaborations with Masahiro Shinoda: the music for Pale Flower, Samurai Spy and Ballad of Orin Tim Koozin;
• 21. Welcome to Kollywood: Tamil film music and popular culture in South India Mekala Padmanabhan.