About the Author

Alessandro Bratus received his PhD in Musicology in 2009 from the University of Pavia, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in popular music. He received research grants from the European Network for Musicological Research (London), Fondazione Cariplo (post-doc training in DH) and Pavia/Boston Exchange Program (Tufts University). His teaching and research activities focus on analytical approaches to music and audiovisual media in Anglo-American and Italian popular culture since the 1960s. Massimo Locatelli, Associate Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. Founding member of NECS, the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, he serves on the editorial boards of CS/Comunicazioni Sociali. Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies and Cinéma&Cie. His main research areas are the history of film theory and the social and technological history of Italian cinema. Among his publications, Cinema e sonoro in Italia (1945-1970) (special issue of CS/Comunicazioni Sociali, 2011, co-edited with Elena Mosconi). Miguel Mera is a composer of music for the moving image and a musicologist. His film and television music has been screened and broadcast around the world. He is the author of Mychael Danna's The Ice Storm: A Film Score Guide (2007), and co-editor of European Film Music (2006) and The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (2017). He serves on the editorial boards of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, Music and the Moving Image, The Journal of Film Music, and The Soundtrack. Miguel is a Reader in the Department of Music and Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) for the School of Arts and Social Sciences at City, University of London.