50 Movie Music Moments comprises a wide-ranging collection of analyses of some of the most fascinating uses of music in modern Hollywood cinema. Considering narrative strategies, filmmaking techniques, functions of film music, audience engagement and conditioning, cultural implications, and intertextuality, the case studies gathered here introduce music as a crucial element of film.
In 50 examples drawn from popular and critically acclaimed Hollywood films from the late 1950s to the present, the collection showcases the many dimensions of film music and its role in cinematic storytelling. Each example includes an analysis addressing the film’s context and providing a close reading of how music, narrative, and visual elements of the scene interact. Case studies exploring the role of music in film include Amadeus, Gladiator, Baby Driver, The Dark Knight, Philadelphia, Schindler’s List, and Black Panther.
This invaluable collection offers an ideal resource to support undergraduate and graduate courses in film music history, film scoring, and filmmaking, as well as readers with a general interest in music in film.
Author(s): Vasco Hexel
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 304
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Original Score (Bespoke Composed Underscore)
Airplane! (1980)
American Beauty (1999)
Arrival (2016)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Get Out (2017)
Gladiator (2000)
GoldenEye (1995)
Jaws (1975)
Moonlight (2016)
Psycho (1960)
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Social Network (2010)
Up (2009)
Witness (1985)
2 Use or Adaption of Classical Music as Underscore
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Amadeus (1984)
Babel (2006)
Philadelphia (1993)
The Hours (2002)
The Shining (1980)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
3 Use or Adaptation of a Pre-Existing Popular Song (Diegetic)
American Psycho (2000)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Baby Driver (2017)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Monster (2003)
Selma (2014)
Wayne’s World (1992)
Zoolander (2001)
4 Use or Adaptation of a Pre-Existing Popular Song (Non-Diegetic)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Trainspotting (1996)
5 Use of an Original or Theme Song
Back to the Future (1985)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Rocky (1976)
The Graduate (1967)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
6 Outliers
Black Panther (2018)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Joker (2019)
Run (Lola Rennt) (1998)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Conclusion
Selected Core Texts and Further Reading
About the Author
Index
