Music in Epic Film Listening to Spectacle

• Other Authors: Meyer, Stephen C. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: LONDON Routledge 2017
• Series: Routledge music and screen media series
• Subjects: Motion picture music > History and criticism; Film composers; Epic films
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As both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema. Including contributions from both established and emerging film music scholars, the ten essays in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle provide a cross-section of contem...

Table of Contents:

• Branding the franchise : music, opening credits, and the (corporate) myth of origin / James Buhler
• Manufacturing the epic score : Hans Zimmer and the sounds of significance / Frank Lehman
• Topoi and intertextuality : narrative function in Hans Zimmer's and Lisa Gerrard's music to Gladiator / Joakim Tillman
• The politics of authenticity in Miklós Rózsa's score to El Cid / Stephen C. Meyer
• From authenticity to anachronism : pre-existing music and "epic Englishness" in Elizabeth and Master and commander / Alexandra Wilson
• Records, repertoire and rollerball : music and the auteur epic / Julie Hubbert
• "The epic and intimately human" : contemplating Tara's theme in Gone with the wind / Nathan Platte
• "We're the real countries" : songs as private musical territories in the epic romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, and The English patient / Todd Decker
• Inverting the epic : the music of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven / Kirsten Yri
• The western as national epic : musical persona and narrative distance in High noon / Jordan Carmalt Stokes.