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Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema (GENRE, MUSIC AND SOUND)
Kevin M J Hayward
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Description for Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema (GENRE, MUSIC AND SOUND)
Paperback. An anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, it analyses the role of music and sound in establishing and enhancing the senses of unease, suspense and shock crucial to the genre. Editor(s): Hayward, Philip. Series: Genre, Music & Sound. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: APFA; AV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
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 contribution to ... Read more
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 contribution to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Condition
New
Series
Genre, Music & Sound
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845532024
SKU
V9781845532024
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About Kevin M J Hayward
Philip Hayward has taught film and popular music studies in Australia and the United Kingdom andis currently research team leader in the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at MacquarieUniversity in Sydney. His previous books include Off The Planet: Music, Sound and Science FictionCinema (2004) and he is a performer in an avant garde chainsaw quartet performing work written bycomposer Michael ... Read more
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