ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The inclusive framework of "screen music and sound" allows readers to explore the intersections and connections between various types of media and music and sound, reflecting the current state of scholarship and the future of the field.
A diverse range of international scholars have contributed an impressive set of forty-six chapters that move from foundational knowledge to cutting edge topics that highlight new key areas. The companion is thematically organized into five cohesive areas of study:
- Issues in the Study of Screen Music and Sound—discusses the essential topics of the discipline
- Historical Approaches—examines periods of historical change or transition
- Production and Process—focuses on issues of collaboration, institutional politics, and the impact of technology and industrial practices
- Cultural and Aesthetic Perspectives—contextualizes an aesthetic approach within a wider framework of cultural knowledge
- Analyses and Methodologies—explores potential methodologies for interrogating screen music and sound
Covering a wide range of topic areas drawn from musicology, sound studies, and media studies, The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides researchers and students with an effective overview of music’s role in narrative media, as well as new methodological and aesthetic insights.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|110 pages
Issues in the Study of Screen Music and Sound
chapter 2|12 pages
Mystical Intimations, the Scenic Sublime, and the Opening of the Vault
chapter 7|11 pages
“You Have to Feel a Sound for It to Be Effective”
part 2|130 pages
Historical Approaches
chapter 13|13 pages
From Radio to Television
chapter 16|12 pages
The Shock of the Old
part 3|106 pages
Production and Process
chapter 21|11 pages
Sound Standings
chapter 27|11 pages
The Voice Delivers the Threats, Foley Delivers the Punch
chapter 28|12 pages
Direct Sounds, Language Swaps, and Directors’ Cuts
part 4|62 pages
Cultural and Aesthetic Perspectives
chapter 35|11 pages
Sounding Transculturation
chapter 36|12 pages
Christopher Plummer Learns to Sing
chapter 38|17 pages
Some Assembly Required
part 5|120 pages
Analyses and Methodologies