Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music

by Anahid Kassabian

Book Overview

Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is just as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial and gender diversity in film has exploded, and the making of musical scores has changed drastically.

Hearing Film offers the first critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s and looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film . In the first section,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YZU2QG
• ISBN13: 9780415928540
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"