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Terror tracks : music, sound and horror cinema / edited by Philip Hayward

Published
London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations, music
Additional Creators
Hayward, Philip
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English.
Contents
Psycho-analysis : form and function in Bernard Herrmann's music for Hitchcock's Masterpiece / James Wierzbicki -- An audiovisual foreshadowing in Psycho / Scott Murphy -- Sound and music in Hammer's vampire films / Michael Hannan -- Creative soundtrack expression : Toro Takemitsu's score for Kwaidan / Kyoko Koizumi -- Prog rock, the horror film and sonic excess : Dario Argento, Morricone and Goblin / Tony Mitchell -- Inflamed : synthetic folk music and paganism in the island world of The wicker man / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward -- Rhythms of evil : exorcising sound from The exorcist / Mark Evans -- Texas chainsaws : audio effect and iconicity / Rebecca Coyle and Philip Hayward -- Incorporating monsters : music as context, character and construction in Kubrick's The shining / Jeremy Barham -- Music of the night : scoring the vampire in contemporary film / Janet K. Halfyard -- Scary movies, scary music : uses and unities of metal in the contemporary horror film / Lee Barron and Ian Inglis -- Like razors through flesh : Hellraiser/s sound design and music / Karen Collins -- Spooked by sound : the Blair witch project / Rebecca Coyle -- Popular songs and ordinary violence : exposing basic human brutality in the films of Rob Zombie / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Terror in the outback : Wolf Creek and Australian horror cinema / Philip Hayward and Harry Minassian -- The ghostly noise of J-horror : roots and ramifications / James Wierzbicki.
Summary
Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, contributors analyse the role of music and sound in establishing and enhancing the senses of unease, suspense and shock crucial to the genre. The anthology shows the various patterns of use an inflection in a range of scores - orchestral, popular, rock and electronic - and how these relate to non-musical sound. Lively and accessible, Terror Tracks is an important contrib.
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ISBN
1845537300 (electronic bk.)
9781845537302 (electronic bk.)
9781845532024 (pb)
1845532023 (pb)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267) and index.
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