TY - BOOK ID - 126917856 TI - Music and mythmaking in film : genre and the role of the composer PY - 2008 SN - 0786431903 9780786431908 PB - Jefferson (N.C.): McFarland, DB - UniCat KW - Cinéma KW - Cinéma américain KW - Musique KW - Motion picture music KW - Film genres. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:126917856 AB - This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an analysis of the major narrative and scoring conventions of a particular genre and concludes with an in-depth analysis of two film examples from different time periods. Several photographic stills and sheet music excerpts are included throughout the work, along with a select bibliography and discography. ER -