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Off the Planet
Phillip Hayward
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Paperback. Editor(s): Hayward, Phillip. Num Pages: 175 pages, music. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 171 x 240 x 13. Weight in Grams: 510.
Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important—if often neglected—aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and Science Fiction cinema. Following a detailed historical introduction to the development of sound and music in the genre, individual chapters analyze key films, film series, composers, and directors in the postwar era. The first part of the anthology profiles seminal 1950s productions such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, the first Godzilla film, and Forbidden Planet. Later chapters analyze ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Libbey & Co Australia
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9780861966448
SKU
V9780861966448
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About Phillip Hayward
Philip Hayward is Professor of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, and co-editor of Perfect Beat—The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture. He has written and edited several other books, including Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music (John Libbey, 1999).
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