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The Spectre of Sound: Music in Film and Television: Music in Film and Television

by Kevin Donnelly
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781844570263
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: British Film Institute
  • Publisher Imprint: British Film Institute
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: GBP 33.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2005
  • Item Weight: 413 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Film / History & Criticism, Television / History & Criticism, and History & Criticism

This major new study focuses on film music as a device that controls its audience by using emotion as a powerful tool. Kevin Donnelly emphasizes the manipulative and ephemeral character of film music. He discusses not only traditional orchestral film music but also film music's colonization of television and the relation of pop music and film.
Film and Television Musicchallenges accepted notions of film music as restricted to film by looking at its use in television and its influence in the world of pop music. It questions traditional assumptions about "valued" film music, either from "name" composers or from the golden era of classical Hollywood.
Focusing on topics as diverse as horror, pop music in film, ethnic signposting, television drama, and the soundtrack without a film, this original study introduces a range of new perspectives on one of the most complex and fascinating aspects of filmmaking."

Donnelly, Kevin: - Kevin Donnelly is Reader in Film at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Magical Musical Tour: Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks (Bloomsbury, 2015), Occult Aesthetics: Sound and Image Synchronization (2013), British Film Music and Film Musicals (2007), The Spectre of Sound (British Film Institute, 2005) and Pop Music in British Cinema (British Film Institute, 2001); and editor of Film Music: Critical Approaches (2001), co-editor (with Phil Hayward) of Music in Science Fiction Television: Tuning to the Future (2012) and co-editor (with Will Gibbons and Neil Lerner) of Music in Video Games: Studying Play (2014).

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