Terror tracks; music, sound and horror cinema.

9781845532024

Terror tracks; music, sound and horror cinema.

Ed. by Philip Hayward.

Equinox Publishing Limited

2009

286 pages

$29.95

Paperback

Genre, music and sound

ML2075

This collection of 15 papers, presented by Hayward (Macquarie U., Australia), explores the significance of music and sound in horror films. The papers include detailed analyses of the relationship between image, sound, and music in specific films and/or film sequences, studies of particular composers' and directors' oeuvres, analyses of musical approaches used in particular subgenres or film series, and an analysis of the use of the use and affectivity of sound in the non-musical soundtrack to The Blair Witch Project. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.

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