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Contemporary Film Music
Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition
Edited by Lindsay Coleman and Joakim Tillman
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Book Presentation:
The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic and musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that focus on a particular feature of the composer’s approach or style. These chapters are written by a fellow composer, musicologist, or film academic who specializes in that element of the composer’s output. In the interview portions of this book, six major film composers discuss their work from the early 1980s to the present day: Carter Burwell, Mychael Danna, Dario Marianelli, Rachel Portman, Zbigniew Preisner, and A.R. Rahman. The focus is on the practical considerations of film composition, the relationship each composer has with the moving image, narrative, technical considerations, personal motivations in composing, the relationships composers have with their directors, and their own creative processes. Contemporary Film Music also explores the contemporary influence of electronic music, issues surrounding the mixing of soundtracks, music theory, and the evolution of each composer’s musical voice.
About the authors:
Lindsay Coleman is an independent film academic, journalist and educator. He is the author of Transnational Cinematography Studies (2017) and Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema (2015). Coleman is working on a series of books on modern cinema and also a documentary series on the history of visual effects.Joakim Tillman is Associate Professor in Musicology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes, for instance the essay Topoi and Intertextuality: Narrative Function in Hans Zimmer’s and Lisa Gerrard’s Music to Gladiator in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle (2017).
See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan
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