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Overhearing Film Music (2025)
Conversations with Screen Composers
by John Caps
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Docs That Rock, Music That Matters (2020)
Publisher: Otherworld Cottage Industries
The Struggle Behind the Soundtrack (2019)
Inside the Discordant New World of Film Scoring
Publisher: McFarland & Co
> Other books on the subject of Music:
Music for Superheroes (2025)
Film and Television Scores Since 1940
Haunted Soundtracks (2025)
Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound
Dir. Kevin J. Donnelly and Aimee Mollaghan
Music Films (2024)
Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music
by Neil Fox
The Music of Space (2024)
Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television
The Synergy of Music and Image in Audiovisual Culture (2023)
Half-Heard Sounds and Peripheral Visions
Key Constellations (2023)
Interpreting Tonality in Film
Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film (2023)
Reflexive Fictions
Improvising the Score (2022)
Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz
Film Music in the Sound Era (2021)
A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres
Film Music in the Sound Era (2021)
A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts
The Presence of the Past (2021)
Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack
Using Soundtrack (2020)
Produce Original Music for Video, DVD, and Multimedia
Recomposing the Past (2020)
Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen
Dir. James Cook, Alexander Kolassa and Adam Whittaker
Play the Way You Feel (2020)
The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film
Springsteen as Soundtrack (2020)
The Sound of the Boss in Film and Television
Music as Image (2017)
Analytical psychology and music in film
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film (2016)
Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction
by Ben Winters
Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets (2016)
Cinemajazzamatazz
Back to the Fifties (2015)
Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
The Music of Counterculture Cinema (2015)
A Critical Study of 1960s and 1970s Soundtracks
by Mathew J. Bartkowiak and Yuya Kiuchi
Seeing Through Music (2015)
Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Anxiety Muted (2014)
American Film Music in a Suburban Age
After the Silents (2014)
Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Unruly Media (2013)
YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema
Saying It with Songs (2013)
Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema
Cinema Sheet Music (2012)
A Comprehensive Listing of Published Film Music from Squaw Man 1914 to Batman 1989
Eye for Music (2011)
Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal
The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook (2011)
Dir. James Wierzbicki, Nathan Platte and Colin Roust
Deleuze and Film Music (2010)
Building a Methodological Bridge between Film Theory and Music
by Gregg Redner
Film and Television Scores, 1950–1979 (2008)
A Critical Survey by Genre
Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR (2007)
Cultural Politics and Propaganda
Dir. Robynn J. Stilwell and Phil Powrie
Music and Mythmaking in Film (2007)
Genre and the Role of the Composer
Beyond the Soundtrack (2007)
Representing Music in Cinema
Dir. Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer and Richard Leppert
Body And Soul (2005)
Jazz And Blues In American Film, 1927-63
Vocal Apparitions (2005)
The Attraction of Cinema to Opera
Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen (2004)
A Guide to More Than 100 Years of Opera Films, Videos, and DVDs
by Ken Wlaschin
Soundtrack Available (2001)
Essays on Film and Popular Music
Dir. Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Movie Song Catalog (1993)
Performers and Supporting Crew for the Songs Sung in 1460 Musical and Nonmusical Films, 1928-1988
by Ruth Benjamin and Arthur Rosenblatt
Settling the Score (1992)
Music and the Classical Hollywood Film
> Other books related to Music:
Hitchcock and Herrmann (2026)
The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Scoring Italian Cinema (2025)
Patterns of Collaboration
Dir. Giorgio Biancorosso and Roberto Calabretto
Korngold in America (2025)
Music, Myth, and Hollywood
by Ben Winters
Subject: Others persons > Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Rock around the Clock (2025)
Exploitation, Rock 'n' roll and the Origins of Youth Culture
by Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân Lincoln
Subject: One Film > Rock around the Clock
Remixing Wong Kar-Wai (2025)
Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion
Subject: Director > Wong Kar-wai
Music in Films on the Middle Ages (2024)
Authenticity vs. Fantasy
by John Haines
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe (2024)
1940s to 1980s
Dir. Michael Baumgartner and Ewelina Boczkowska
The Music of the How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy (2024)
A Guide to the Scores of John Powell
by Erik Heine
Subject: One Film > How to Train Your Dragon
Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper (2024)
Subject: Director > Dennis Hopper
I Want You Around (2023)
The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘n' Roll High School
Subject: One Film > Rock 'n' Roll High School
Part of the Magic (2023)
A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness
by Bambi Moé
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
The Beatles and Film (2023)
From Youth Culture to Counterculture
Subject: One Film > A Hard Day's Night, Help!
Mapping the Rockumentary (2023)
Images of Sound and Fury
Dir. Gunnar Iversen and Scott MacKenzie
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Working Musicians (2023)
Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
The Coen Brothers and American Roots Music (2023)
Subject: Director > Coen Brothers
Silent Films/Loud Music (2023)
New Ways of Listening to and Thinking about Silent Film Music
Subject: Silent Cinema
Music in Star Trek (2022)
Sound, Utopia, and the Future
Dir. Jessica Getman, Brooke McCorkle Okazaki and Evan Ware
Subject: One Film > Star Trek (TV Series)
Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema (2022)
Subject: Director > Jean-Luc Godard
Music and Sound in the Worlds of Michel Gondry (2022)
Subject: Director > Michel Gondry
The Film Music of John Williams (2021)
Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style
Subject: Others persons > John Williams
Music in Twin Peaks (2021)
Listen to the Sounds
Dir. Reba Wissner and Katherine Reed
Subject: One Film > Twin Peaks (TV Series)
The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema (2021)
Dir. Ajay Gehlawat and Rajinder Dudrah
Subject: Countries
The Screen Music of Trevor Jones (2021)
Technology, Process, Production
by David Cooper, Ian Sapiro and Laura Anderson
Subject: Others persons > Trevor Jones
US Youth Films and Popular Music (2019)
Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency
by Tim McNelis
Subject: Countries > United States
Unsettled Scores (2019)
Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler
by Sally Bick
Andrei Tarkovsky's Sounding Cinema (2019)
Music and Meaning from Solaris to The Sacrifice
Subject: Director > Andrei Tarkovsky
Sound Design is the New Score (2019)
Theory, Aesthetics, and Erotics of the Integrated Soundtrack
Cinesonidos (2019)
Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro
Music and Sound in Silent Film (2018)
From the Nickelodeon to The Artist
Dir. Ruth Barton and Simon Trezise
Subject: Silent Cinema
Cosmopolitan Intimacies (2018)
Malay Film Music of the Independence Era
by Adil Johan
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
American Music Documentary (2018)
Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Incomparable Hildegarde (2018)
The Sexuality, Style and Image of an Entertainment Icon
Subject: Others persons > Hildegarde
The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (2017)
Dir. Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Jazz and Cocktails (2017)
Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
Necessary Noise (2016)
Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo
Situated Listening (2016)
The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema
Music in Contemporary Indian Film (2016)
Memory, Voice, Identity
Dir. Jayson Beaster-Jones and Natalie Sarrazin
The James Bond Songs (2015)
Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism
by Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Sonatas, Screams, and Silence (2015)
Music and Sound in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
by Alexis Luko
Subject: Director > Ingmar Bergman
Hip Hop on Film (2015)
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Subject: Sociology
Bollywood Sounds (2014)
The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song
Robert Altman's Soundtracks (2014)
Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion
Subject: Director > Robert Altman
Composing for the Red Screen (2014)
Prokofiev and Soviet Film
by Kevin Bartig
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
John Williams's Film Music (2014)
Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style
Subject: Others persons > John Williams
We'll Meet Again (2013)
Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Subject: Director > Stanley Kubrick
The Music Documentary (2013)
Acid Rock to Electropop
Dir. Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar and Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Musique Fantastique (2012)
100 Years of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Film Music
Playing to the Camera (2012)
Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema
by Thomas Cohen
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The International Film Musical (2012)
Dir. Corey K. Creekmur and Linda Y. Mokdad
Siren City (2011)
Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir
Danse macabre (2010)
25 years of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton
by Jeff Bond
Subject: Director > Tim Burton
Sounds of the Future (2010)
Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film
Dir. Mathew J. Bartkowiak
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
John Barry (2008)
The Man with the Midas Touch
by Geoff Leonard, Pete Walker and Gareth Bramley
Subject: Others persons > John Barry
How the West Was Sung (2007)
Music in the Westerns of John Ford
The Soundtracks of Woody Allen (2007)
A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969–2005
by Adam Harvey
Subject: Director > Woody Allen
The Greek Film Musical (2005)
A Critical and Cultural History
A Fiddler's Tale (2003)
How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me
by Louis Kaufman and Annette Kaufman
Subject: Others persons > Louis Kaufman
A Heart at Fire's Center (2002)
The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
Subject: Others persons > Bernard Herrmann
Horse Opera (2002)
The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
A Heart at Fire's Center (1991)
The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
Subject: Others persons > Bernard Herrmann
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