Sounds of Fear and Wonder
Music in Cult Tv
Published on 20. June 2016
232 pages
978-0-85772-940-8 (ISBN)
Description
Characters and plot developments, similarly, are enhanced by their musical accompaniment. The different scoring strategies employed in supernatural and horror-based genres, comprising for example True Blood and Supernatural, are considered alongside cult shows set in our reality, such as Dexter, The Sopranos and 24. These discussions are complimented by in-depth case studies of musical approaches in two high-profile series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Hannibal. Written from a musicological standpoint but fully accessible to non-musicologists, the book significantly advances television and music studies.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
34 figures
ISBN-13
978-0-85772-940-8 (9780857729408)
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06/2016
I.B. Tauris
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Person
Janet K. Halfyard is Associate Professor at Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, where she teaches film music, twentieth-century music and contemporary music. She is author of Danny Elfman's Batman: A Film Score Guide (2004), and co-editor of Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Content
Introduction
Part I: structure and genre
1. Intros and Outros
2. Signs, games and messages: music and narrative
3. Cowboys in Space: music in Science Fiction TV
4. The bells of hell go tingalingaling: music in supernatural TV
5. "It's life, Jim, but..." Cult and fantasy in the 'real' world
Part II: case studies in television music scoring
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7. Battlestar Galactica
8. Lost
Part I: structure and genre
1. Intros and Outros
2. Signs, games and messages: music and narrative
3. Cowboys in Space: music in Science Fiction TV
4. The bells of hell go tingalingaling: music in supernatural TV
5. "It's life, Jim, but..." Cult and fantasy in the 'real' world
Part II: case studies in television music scoring
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7. Battlestar Galactica
8. Lost
