Film Music

Professor Kevin Donnelly is Professor of Film and Film Music at the University of Southampton. He has written or edited 12 books, including Occult Aesthetics: Sound and Image Synchronization (Oxford University Press, 2013; which received an award from the American Musicological Society), The Spectre of Sound (BFI, 2005, second edition 2020), Magical Musical Tour: Pop and Rock in Film Soundtracks (Bloomsbury, 2015; which received an award from the Southwest Popular and American Cultural Association), Pop Music in British Cinema (BFI, 2001), British Film Music and Film Musicals (Palgrave, 2007) and The Shining (Columbia University Press, 2018). He is co-series editor of EUP’s Music and the Moving Image series, and co-edited Contemporary Musical Film for the series (EUP, 2019)

• Contents; Introduction; Chapter One:; The Hidden Heritage of Film Music: History and Scholarship; K. J. Donnelly; Chapter Two:; Analytical and Interpretive Approaches to Film Music (I): Analysing the Music; David Neumeyer and James Buhler; Chapter Three:; Analytical and Interpretive Approaches to Film Music (II): Analysing Interactions of Music and Film; James Buhler; Chapter Four:; 'In the Mix': How Electrical Producers Facilitated the Transition to Sound in British Cinemas; Michael Allen; Chapter Five:; King Kong and Film on Music (Out of the Fog); Peter Franklin; Chapter Six:; The Dies Irae in Citizen Kane: Musical Hermeneutics Applied to Film Music; William H. Rosar; Chapter Seven:; The Documentary Film Scores of Gail Kubik; Alfred W. Cochran; Chapter Eight:; Embracing Kitsch: Werner Schroeter, Music and The Bomber Pilot; Caryl Flinn; Chapter Nine:; Performance and the Composite Film Score; K.J. Donnelly; ; Chapter Ten:; Sound and Empathy: Subjectivity, Gender and the Cinematic Soundscape; Robynn J. Stilwell; Chapter Eleven:; 'Would You like to Hear Some Music?' Music in-and-out-of-control in the Films of Quentin Tarantino; Ken Garner; Contributors.

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