“recommended”—Choice; “a wonderful examination of the dynamic process of the relationship between myth, storytelling, and music in the movies. Timothy Scheurer has written a book that is desperately needed in a scholarly field that often desires to obscure its subject rather than enlighten it”—The Journal of Popular Culture; “constitutes a major study of the conventions of film scoring in a number of set genres. Particularly convincing and intriguing are the sections where Scheurer explains how narrative genre conventions have changed over time and how corresponding compositional changes can be detected...this is a major study into the composition of film music and of the kind of techniques that composers use on a daily basis, and its discussion of the relationship between film music and film genre highlights areas for further investigation in music and moving image scholarship”—Music, Sound and Moving Image.
