Research Catalog

Title

Terror tracks : music, sound and horror cinema / edited by Philip Hayward.

Publication

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hayward, Philip.

Description

x, 286 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.

Summary

Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, 'Terror Tracks' is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema.

Series Statement

Genre, music and sound

Uniform Title

Genre, music and sound.

Subject

• Motion picture music > History and criticism
• Horror films > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-267) and index.

Contents

Psycho-analysis : form and function in Bernard Herrmann's music for Hitchcock's Masterpiece / James Wierzbicki -- An audiovisual foreshadowing in Psycho / Scott Murphy -- Sound and music in Hammer's vampire films / Michael Hannan -- Creative soundtrack expression : Tôru Takemitsu's score for Kwaidan / Kyoko Koizumi -- Prog rock, the horror film and sonic excess : Dario Argento, Morricone and Goblin / Tony Mitchell -- Inflamed : synthetic folk music and paganism in the island world of The wicker man / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward -- Rhythms of evil : exorcising sound from The exorcist / Mark Evans -- Texas chainsaws : audio effect and iconicity / Rebecca Coyle and Philip Hayward -- Incorporating monsters : music as context, character and construction in Kubrick's The shining / Jeremy Barham -- Music of the night : scoring the vampire in contemporary film / Janet K. Halfyard -- Scary movies, scary music : uses and unities of heavy metal in the contemporary horror film / Lee Barron and Ian Inglis -- Like razors through flesh : Hellraiser's sound design and music / Karen Collins -- Spooked by sound : the Blair witch project / Rebecca Coyle -- Popular songs and ordinary violence : exposing basic human brutality in the films of Rob Zombie / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Terror in the outback : Wolf Creek and Australian horror cinema / Philip Hayward and Harry Minassian -- The ghostly noise of J-horror : roots and ramifications / James Wierzbicki.

Call Number

JME 13-767

ISBN

• 9781845532024 (pb)
• 1845532023 (pb)

LCCN

2007030272

OCLC

156975375

Title

Terror tracks : music, sound and horror cinema / edited by Philip Hayward.

Imprint

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009.

Series

Genre, music and sound

Genre, music and sound.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-267) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Hayward, Philip.

Other Form:

Online version: Terror tracks. London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2009 (OCoLC)639787838

Research Call Number

JME 13-767