Music of Fantasy Cinema

Janet K. Halfyard is a Senior Academic in Music at Birmingham Conservatoire. She has published widely on film and television music, particularly in relation to horror and fantasy genres. Her publications include Danny Elfman's Batman: a film score guide (Scarecrow, 2004) and Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Ashgate, 2010).

• Contents Introduction: Finding Fantasy Janet K. Halfyard 1. Fantasy and the Exotic Other: The Films of Ray Harryhausen Mark Brill, University of Texas, San Antonio 2. Numinous Ambience: Spirituality, Dreamtimes and Fantastic Aboriginality Philip Hayward, Southern Cross University, Australia 3. Who Wants to Live Forever: Glam Rock, Queen and Fantasy Film J. Drew Stephen, University of Texas, San Antonio 4. Fantasy Meets Electronica: Legend and the Music of Tangerine Dream Lee Barron, Northumbria University 5. Entering the Labyrinth: How Henson and Bowie Created a Musical Fantasy Liz Giuffre, Macquarie University 6. Superman as Mythic Narrative: Music, Romanticism and the 'Oneiric Climate' Ben Winters, Christ Church, University of Oxford 7. Music and Fantasy Types in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands Alexander G. Binns, University of Hull 8. The Tritone Within: Interpreting Harmony in Elliot Goldenthal's Score for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Scott Murphy, University of Kansas 9. Scoring Fantasy Girls: Music and Female Agency in Indiana Jones and The Mummy films Janet K. Halfyard and Victoria Hancock 10. Creating Magic with Music: The Changing Dramatic Relationship between Music and Magic in Harry Potter Films. Jamie L. Webster 11. Superconductors: Music, fantasy and science in The Sorcerer's Apprentice Janet K. Halfyard

"The collection is outstanding; its overall quality and breadth of content, methods, and interpretive strategies are particularly well demonstrated in essays by Alexander Binns, Mark Brill, Victoria Hancock and Halfyard, Philip Hayward, Jamie Webster, and Ben Winters. This excellent volume could also serve as a textbook for a seminar in film music. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers." Choice, June 2013 "Most of the topics within this volume are not those typically used in film music textbooks or broader-based publications,and this is perhaps its greatest strength... If one is interested in the genre of fantasy, is looking for supplemental material that is off the beaten path, or is simply interested in a few of the movies discussed here, this book deserves a look." Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 2013