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The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound
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Introduction: Framing Screen Music and Sound (MIGUEL MERA, RONALD SADOFF, AND BEN WINTERS)

Part 1: Issues in the Study of Screen Music and Sound

1. The Ghostly Effect Revisited (K.J. DONNELLY) 2. Mystical Intimations, the Scenic Sublime, and the Opening of the Vault: De-classicizing the Late-romantic Revival in the Scoring of ‘New Hollywood’ Blockbusters c. 1977–1993 (PETER FRANKLIN) 3. Screen Music and the Question of Originality (MIGUEL MERA) 4. Affect, Intensities, and Empathy: Sound and Contemporary Screen Violence (LISA COULTHARD) 5. Balinese Music, an Italian Film, and an Ethnomusicological Approach to Screen Music and Sound (MICHAEL B. BAKAN) 6. Emphatic and Ecological Sounds in Gameworld Interfaces (KRISTINE JøRGENSEN) 7. "You Have to Feel a Sound for It to Be Effective": Sonic Surfaces in Film and Television (LUCY FIFE DONALDSON) 8. Screen Music, Narrative, and/or Affect: Kieślowski’s Musical Bodies (NICHOLAS REYLAND) 9. Roundtable: Current Perspectives on Music, Sound, and Narrative in Screen Media (ANAHID KASSABIAN - convenor) with ELENA BOSCHI, JAMES BUHLER, CLAUDIA GORBMAN, MIGUEL MERA, ROGER MOSELEY, RONALD SADOFF, and BEN WINTERS

Part 2: Historical Approaches

10. Sound Design and Its Interactions with Music: Changing Historical Perspectives (DANIJELA KULEZIC-WILSON) 11. Dimensions of Game Music History (TIM SUMMERS) 12. The Changing Audio, Visual, and Narrative Parameters of Hindi Film Songs (ANNA MORCOM) 13. From Radio to Television: Sound Style and Audio Technique in Early TV Anthology Dramas (SHAWN VANCOUR) 14. Manifest Destiny, The Space Race, and 1960s Television (ROBYNN J. STILWELL) 15. The Early Cinema Soundscape (RICK ALTMAN) 16. The Shock of the Old: The Restoration, Reconstruction, or Creation of ‘Mute’-Film Accompaniments (GILLIAN B. ANDERSON) 17. Music That Works: Listening to Prestige British Industrial Films (ANNETTE DAVISON) 18. The Fine Art of Repurposing: A Look at Scores for Hollywood ‘B’ Films in the 1930s (JEFF SMITH) 19. Trailer or Leader? The Role of Music and Sound in Cinematic Previews (JAMES DEAVILLE)

Part 3: Production and Process

20 A Star is Born: Max Steiner in the Studios, 1929–1939 (NATHAN PLATTE) 21. Sound Standings: A Brief History of the Impact of Labor and Professional Representation on the Place of Early Sound Workers in the Industry (1927–1937) (GIANLUCA SERGI) 22. In Sync? Music Supervisors, Music Placement Practices, and Industrial Change (BETHANY KLEIN AND LESLIE M. MEIER) 23. Shaping the Soundtrack? Hollywood Preview Audiences (RONALD SADOFF AND MIGUEL MERA) 24. Craft, Art, or Process: The Question of Creativity in Orchestration for Screen (IAN SAPIRO) 25. Post-Apartheid Cinema (CHRISTOPHER LETCHER) 26. Simulation: Squaring the Immersion, Realism, and Gameplay Circle (STEPHEN BAYSTED) 27. The Voice Delivers the Threats, Foley Delivers the Punch: Embodied Knowledge in Foley Artistry (SANDRA PAULETTO) 28. Direct Sounds, Language Swaps, and Directors’ Cuts: The Quest for Fidelity in the Film Soundtrack (EMILE WENNEKES)

Part 4: Cultural and Aesthetic Perspectives

29. From Disney to Dystopia: Transforming "Brazil" for a US Audience (KARIANN GOLDSCHMITT) 30. Birth and Death of the Cool: The Glorious Afflictions of Jazz on Screen (JEREMY BARHAM) 31. Home Theater(s): Technology, Culture, and Style (MARK KERINS) 32. Drive, Speed, and Narrative in the Soundscapes of Racing Games (KAREN COLLINS AND RUTH DOCKWRAY) 33. Music, Genre, and Nationality in the Postmillenial Fantasy Role-Playing Game (WILLIAM GIBBONS) 34. ‘Sounding’ Japanese: Traditions of Music in Japanese Cinema (ALEXANDER BINNS) 35. Sounding Transculturation: Western Opera in Korea during the Japanese Occupation (1910–1945) (JEONGWON JOE) 36. Christopher Plummer Learns to Sing: The Torn Masculinities of Mid-Century US Musicals (CARYL FLINN) 37. Music, Whiteness, and Masculinity in Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans (REBECCA FüLöP) 38. Some Assembly Required: Hybrid Scores in Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel (KATE MCQUISTON)

Part 5: Analyses and Methodologies

39. Methods and Challenges of Analyzing Screen Media (FRANK LEHMAN) 40. From Intuition to Evidence: The Experimental Psychology of Film Music (SIU-LAN TAN) 41. Idolizing the Synchronized Score: Studying Indiana Jones Hypertexts (BEN WINTERS) 42. Fearful Symmetries: Music as Metaphor in Doppelgänger Films (TOM SCHNELLER) 43. Musical Dreams and Nightmares: An Analysis of Flower (ELIZABETH MEDINA-GRAY) 44. Reverb, Acousmata, and the Backstage Musical (PETER DOYLE) 45. Unsettling the Soundtrack: Acoustic Profiling and the Documentation of Community and Place (RANDOLPH JORDAN) 46. The Sound of Slime-ness: Telling Children’s Stories on the Nickelodeon Network (JENNIFER FLEEGER)

About the Author

Miguel Mera is Reader in the Department of Music and Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) at City, University of London.

Ronald Sadoff is Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions in the Steinhardt School at New York University.

Ben Winters is Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK.

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