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Contemporary Film Music

Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition

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Editors:
  1. Lindsay Coleman

    1. Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Joakim Tillman

    1. Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Brings together practitioner and theorist
  • Features interviews with 8 major film composers including Mychael Danna and A.R. Rahman
  • Explores the contemporary influence of electronic music, issues surrounding the mixing of soundtracks, music theory, and the evolution of composers’ musical voices

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Lindsay Coleman, Joakim Tillman
    Pages 1-15

  3. A.R. Rahman Interview

    • Lindsay Coleman
    Pages 17-25

  4. The ‘Alternate Space’ of A.R. Rahman’s Film Music

    • Felicity Wilcox
    Pages 27-55

  5. Zbigniew Preisner Interview

    • Jonathan Godsall
    Pages 57-62

  6. Music by Zbigniew Preisner? Fictional Composers and Compositions in the Kieślowski Collaborations

    • Jonathan Godsall
    Pages 63-86

  7. Carter Burwell Interview

    • Lindsay Coleman
    Pages 87-96

  8. Burwell and Space: Inner, Outer, Environmental and Acoustical

    • Andrew Waggoner
    Pages 97-118

  9. Rachel Portman Interview

    • Lindsay Coleman
    Pages 119-124

  10. Eero Tarasti and the Narratological Construction of Rachel Portman’s Emma

    • Lindsay Coleman
    Pages 125-138

  11. Dario Marianelli Interview

    • Lindsay Coleman
    Pages 139-153

  12. Solo Instruments and Internal Focalization in Dario Marianelli’s Pride & Prejudice and Atonement

    • Joakim Tillman
    Pages 155-186

  13. Mychael Danna Interview

    • Lindsay Coleman
    Pages 187-193

  14. Mychael Danna: Music as Metaphor

    • Peter Golub, Katy Jarzebowski
    Pages 195-219

  15. John Williams and Contemporary Film Music

    • Emilio Audissino
    Pages 221-236

  16. Musical Syntax in John Williams’s Film Music Themes

    • Konstantinos Zacharopoulos
    Pages 237-262

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 263-272
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About this book

The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic and musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that focus on a particular feature of the composer’s approach or style. These chapters are written by a fellow composer, musicologist, or film academic who specializes in that element of the composer’s output. In the interview portions of this book, six major film composers discuss their work from the early 1980s to the present day: Carter Burwell, Mychael Danna, Dario Marianelli, Rachel Portman, Zbigniew Preisner, and A.R. Rahman. The focus is on the practical considerations of film composition, the relationship each composer has with the moving image, narrative, technical considerations, personal motivations in composing, the relationships composers have with their directors, and their own creative processes. Contemporary Film Music also explores the contemporary influence of electronic music, issues surrounding the mixing of soundtracks, music theory, and the evolution of each composer’s musical voice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Melbourne, Australia

    Lindsay Coleman

  • Stockholm, Sweden

    Joakim Tillman

About the editors

Lindsay Coleman is an independent film academic, journalist and educator. He is the author of Transnational Cinematography Studies (2017) and Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema (2015). Coleman is working on a series of books on modern cinema and also a documentary series on the history of visual effects.

Joakim Tillman is Associate Professor in Musicology at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes, for instance the essay Topoi and Intertextuality: Narrative Function in Hans Zimmer’s and Lisa Gerrard’s Music to Gladiator in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle (2017).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Film Music

  • Book Subtitle: Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition

  • Editors: Lindsay Coleman, Joakim Tillman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57375-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57374-2Published: 09 June 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57375-9Published: 30 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 272

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Music, Film Theory

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