Screen Scores: Studies in contemporary Australian film music - Softcover

Coyle, Rebbecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1876351004 ISBN 13: 9781876351007

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Screen Scores provides a series of in-depth analyses of the ways in which contemporary Australian cinema has used music in its soundtracks. Individual chapters analyse films such as Shine

The Piano

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Romper Stomper and the Mad Max trilogy, examining the processes behind the creation, production and consumption of film music scores. Various themes run through the book, including the relationship between film music and narrative

the use of musical themes to enhance characterisation

directorial style in sound composition

and how sounds, such as the didjeridu, are used to evoke and symbolise Australia.

Screen Scores comprises a stimulating collection of essays by authors based around Australia as well as in New York and London, drawing on various critical traditions, such as media, music and cultural studies, and offers original insights on the subject of music on film.

About this title

About the Author

Rebecca Coyle lectures in Media Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, and was curator of the major Australian sound art exhibition Sound in Space, held at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1995. She has written and edited several previous publications including, most recently, Apparition: Holographic Art in Australia (1995), and authored journal articles on subjects as diverse as radiophony, Hawaiian music in Austraila and advanced technology art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1876351004
• ISBN 13: 9781876351007
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120