Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle
- Editor: Meyer, Stephen
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Contents
- Series
- Foreword
- Preface Epic Genre, Epic Style Stephen C. Meyer
- Acknowledgments
- Part I : Marketing and Production
- 1. Branding the Franchise: Music and the (Corporate) Myth of Origin James Buhler
- 2. Manufacturing the Epic Score: Hans Zimmer and the Sounds of Significance Frank Lehman
- Part II : Narrative and Interpretation
- 3. Topoi and Intertextuality: Narrative Function in Hans Zimmer's and Lisa Gerrard's Music to Gladiator Joakim Tillman
- 4. The Politics of Authenticity in Miklos Rozsa's Score to El Cid Stephen C. Meyer
- Part III : Pre-Existing Music and the Epic Style
- 5. From Authenticity to Anachronism: Pre-Existing Music and "Epic Englishness" in Elizabeth and Master and Commander Alexandra Wilson
- 6. Records, Repertoire and Rollerball : Music and the Auteur Epic Julie Hubbert
- Part IV : Songs and Themes
- 7. "The epic and intimately human": Contemplating Tara's Theme in Gone With the Wind Nathan Platte
- 8. "We're the real countries": Songs as Private Musical Territories in the Epic Romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago , and The English Patient Todd Decker
- Part V : Genre and the (Anti-)Epic
- 9. Inverting the Epic: The Music of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven Kirsten Yri
- 10. The Western as National Epic: Musical Persona and Narrative Distance in High Noon Jordan Carmalt Stokes