Off the planet : music, sound and science fiction cinema / edited by Philip Hayward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayward, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction films--History and criticism.

Science fiction films.

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Motion pictures--Sound effects--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Sound effects.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 214 pages : 1 illustration, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Eastleigh, UK : John Libbey ; Bloomington, IN : distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, [2004]

Summary:

Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognised as an important -- if often neglected -- aspect of film production and film studies. Off The Planet is an important contribution to the emerging body of work in this field and is targeted at both cinema studies readers and film music students and aficionados. Off The Planet comprises a lively, stimulating and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound and Science Fiction cinema. Following a detailed historical introduction to the development of sound and music in the genre, individual chapters analyse key films, film series, composers and directors in the post-War era. The first part of the anthology profiles seminal 1950s productions such as The Day the Earth stood still, the first Godzilla film and Forbidden Planet. Later chapters analyse the work of composer John Williams, the career of director David Cronenberg, the Mad Max series, James Cameron's Terminators and other notable SF films such as Space is the Place, Blade Runner, Mars Attacks! and The Matrix.

Contents:

Introduction: Sci Fidelity

Music, Sound and Genre History / Philip Hayward 1

Chapter 1 Hooked on Aetherophonics: The Day The Earth Stood Still / Rebecca Leydon 30

Chapter 2 Atomic Overtones and Primitive Undertones: Akira Ifukube's Sound Design for Godzilla / Shuhei Hoskoawa 42

Chapter 3 Forbidden Planet: Effects and Affects in the Electro Avant Garde / Rebecca Leydon 61

Chapter 4 The Transmolecularisation of [Black] Folk: Space is the Place, Sun Ra and Afrofuturism / Nabeel Zuberi 77

Chapter 5 Nostalgia, Masculinist Discourse, and Authoritarianism in John Williams' Scores for Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Neil Lerner 96

Chapter 6 Sound and Music in the Mad Max trilogy / Rebecca Coyle 109

Chapter 7 "These are my nightmares": Music and Sound in the films of David Cronenberg / Paul Theberge 129

Chapter 8 Ambient Soundscapes in Blade Runner / Michael Hannan, Melissa Carey 149

Chapter 9 'I'll be back': Recurrent sonic motifs in James Cameron's Terminator films / Karen Collins 165

Chapter 10 Inter-Planetary Soundclash: Music, Technology and Territorialisation in Mars Attacks! / Philip Hayward 176

Chapter 11 Mapping The Matrix: Virtual Spatiality and the realm of the perceptual / Mark Evans 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210)and index.

ISBN:

0861966449

OCLC:

53872054