Music in Action Film: Sounds Like Action!

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Series Foreword
• Neil Lerner
• List of Contributors
• Preface: Sounds Like Action!
• James Buhler and Mark Durrand
• Part I: Action Scored: Politics, Representation, and Identity
• Favela Chic in Action
• Soundtracking Urban Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• K.E. Goldschmitt
• "You're Not Gonna Get Mushy on Me, Are You?"
• Music and the New Man in 1990s Hollywood Action Film
• Rebecca Fuloep
• "I Am No Lady When I Fight!"
• Gender Politics in the Postwar Swashbuckler Score
• Grace Edgar
• Reviving the Swordplay Action Film
• Nature, Technology, and the Soundtrack for Seven Samurai
• Brooke McCorkle Okazaki
• Conan the Neoliberal?
• The Sounds of Hypermasculine Entrepreneurship
• in Early Reaganite Film
• James Deaville
• Part II: Action Scores: Evolving Musical Conventions
• Underscoring Chased Heroes and Robbing Villains
• Music of Immediacy in New Hollywood Action Thrillers
• of the late 1960s and 1970s
• Michael Baumgartner
• John Williams's Action Music in the Twenty-First Century
• Frank Lehman
• "There and Back Again"
• Music and Generic Transformation in Peter Jackson's Hobbit Films
• Stephen C. Meyer
• Star Trek as Action Film
• Reimagining The Original Series' Soundscape
• Paul Sommerfeld
• A Tale of Two Cinemas:
• Zashchitniki (Guardians, 2017) and
• Music for the New Russian Superhero Film
• Joan Titus
• Part III: Scoring Action: The Kinesthetic Experience and Production
• "Those Who Dance"
• Popular Music, Audiovisual Editing, and Meaning across
• the Guardians of the Galaxy Franchise
• Catrin Watts
• Toward a Musical Understanding of Cinematic Action:
• Two Experiments with Embodiment and Musical Vitality
• in Film Experience
• Mark Durrand
• Sound-Induced Visual Illusion in Film
• Sarah Louden
• "Humming the Foley, Singing the Sound"
• Designing Sound with a Musical Perspective
• Vanessa Theme Ament
• Music, Digital Audio, Labor:
• Notes on Audio and Music Production
• for the Contemporary Action Film
• James Buhler
• Index