Music in epic film : listening to spectacle / edited by Stephen C. Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyer, Stephen C., 1963- editor.

Series:

Routledge music and screen media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Film composers.

Epic films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Branding the franchise : music and the (corporate) myth of origin / James Buhler

Manufacturing the epic score : Hans Zimmer and the sounds of significance / Frank Lehman

Topoi and intertextuality : narrative function in Hans Zimmer's and Lisa Gerrard's music to Gladiator / Joakim Tillman

The politics of authenticity in Miklós Rózsa's score to El Cid / Stephen C. Meyer

From authenticity to anachronism : pre-existing music and "epic Englishness" in Elizabeth and Master and commander / Alexandra Wilson

Records, repertoire and rollerball : music and the auteur epic / Julie Hubbert

"The epic and intimately human" : contemplating Tara's theme in Gone with the wind / Nathan Platte

"We're the real countries" : songs as private musical territories in the epic romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, and The English patient / Todd Decker

Inverting the epic : the music of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven / Kirsten Yri

The western as national epic : musical persona and narrative distance in High noon / Jordan Carmalt Stokes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Music in epic film

ISBN:

9781138915831

1138915831

9781138915824

1138915823

OCLC:

945072522

Publisher Number:

40026434105