Film Music Very Short Introductions available now: AFRICAN HISTORY THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe John Parker and Richard Rathbone CHAOS Leonard Smith AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson THE AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead PRESIDENCY Charles O. Jones CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy ANARCHISM Colin Ward CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw Helen Morales ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas CLASSICS ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom Mary Beard and John Henderson ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS CONTEMPORARY ART Julian Stallabrass Paul Foster CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn Simon Critchley ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman ART HISTORY Dana Arnold CRYPTOGRAPHY ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland Fred Piper and Sean Murphy ATHEISM Julian Baggini DADA AND SURREALISM AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick David Hopkins AUTISM Uta Frith DARWIN Jonathan Howard BARTHES Jonathan Culler THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BESTSELLERS John Sutherland Timothy Lim THE BIBLE John Riches DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY Eric H. Cline DESCARTES Tom Sorell BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee DESERTS Nick Middleton THE BOOK OF MORMON DESIGN John Heskett Terryl Givens DINOSAURS David Norman THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea DOCUMENTARY FILM BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright Patricia Aufderheide BUDDHA Michael Carrithers DREAMING J. Allan Hobson BUDDHISM Damien Keown DRUGS Leslie Iversen BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown THE EARTH Martin Redfern CAPITALISM James Fulcher ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger BRITAIN Paul Langford THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway EMOTION Dylan Evans HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson EMPIRE Stephen Howe HEGEL Peter Singer ENGELS Terrell Carver HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood EPIDEMIOLOGY Roldolfo Saracci HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson ETHICS Simon Blackburn HINDUISM Kim Knott THE EUROPEAN UNION HISTORY John H. Arnold John Pinder and Simon Usherwood THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY EVOLUTION Michael Hoskin Brian and Deborah Charlesworth THE HISTORY OF LIFE Michael Benton EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE FASCISM Kevin Passmore William Bynum FASHION Rebecca Arnold THE HISTORY OF TIME FEMINISM Margaret Walters Leofranc Holford-Strevens Film music Kathryn Kalinak HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside THE FIRST WORLD WAR HOBBES Richard Tuck Michael Howard HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham FOSSILS Keith Thomson HUME A. J. Ayer FOUCAULT Gary Gutting IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton FREE WILL Thomas Pink INFORMATION Luciano Floridi French literature John D. Lyons INNOVATION THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Mark Dodgson and David Gann William Doyle INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary FREUD Anthony Storr INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven Khalid Koser GALAXIES John Gribbin INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS GALILEO Stillman Drake Paul Wilkinson GAME THEORY Ken Binmore ISLAM Malise Ruthven GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein GEOGRAPHY JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves John Matthews and David Herbert JUDAISM Norman Solomon GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds JUNG Anthony Stevens GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle KABBALAH Joseph Dan GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire KAFKA Ritchie Robertson GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin KANT Roger Scruton KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner NEWTON Robert Iliffe THE KORAN Michael Cook NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner LAW Raymond Wacks NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Peter Atkins Matthew LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo THE NORMAN CONQUEST LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews George Garnett LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler NORTHERN IRELAND LOCKE John Dunn Marc Mulholland LOGIC Graham Priest NOTHING Frank Close MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner NUCLEAR WEAPONS THE MARQUIS DE SADE Joseph M. Siracusa John Phillips THE OLD TESTAMENT MARX Peter Singer Michael D. Coogan MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close THE MEANING OF LIFE PAUL E. P. Sanders Terry Eagleton PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope PHILOSOPHY OF LAW MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Raymond Wacks John Gillingham and Ralph A. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Griffiths Samir Okasha MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards MODERN ART David Cottington PLATO Julia Annas MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta David Miller MODERN JAPAN POLITICS Kenneth Minogue Christopher Goto-Jones POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young MOLECULES Philip Ball POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman POSTSTRUCTURALISM MUSIC Nicholas Cook Catherine Belsey MYTH Robert A. Segal PREHISTORY Chris Gosden NATIONALISM Steven Grosby PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer Catherine Osborne NEOLIBERALISM PRIVACY Raymond Wacks Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent THE NEW TESTAMENT PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns Luke Timothy Johnson PSYCHOLOGY THE NEW TESTAMENT AS Gillian Butler and Freda McManus LITERATURE Kyle Keefer PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion SOCIALISM Michael Newman QUANTUM THEORY SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce John Polkinghorne SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor RACISM Ali Rattansi THE SOVIET UNION THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall Stephen Lovell RELATIVITY Russell Stannard THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR RELIGION IN AMERICA Timothy Beal Helen Graham THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy SPINOZA Roger Scruton THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton STATISTICS David J. Hand RENAISSANCE ART STUART BRITAIN John Morrill Geraldine A. Johnson SUPERCONDUCTIVITY ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway Stephen Blundell THE ROMAN EMPIRE TERRORISM Charles Townshend Christopher Kelly THEOLOGY David F. Ford ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr RUSSELL A. C. Grayling TRAGEDY Adrian Poole RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly THE TUDORS John Guy THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TWENTIETH-CENTURY S. A. Smith BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan SCHIZOPHRENIA THE UNITED NATIONS Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone Jussi M. Hanhimäki SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway THE VIKINGS SCIENCE AND RELIGION Julian Richards Thomas Dixon WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill SCOTLAND Rab Houston WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer THE WORLD TRADE SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt ORGANIZATION SOCIAL AND CULTURAL Amrita Narlikar ANTHROPOLOGY WRITING AND SCRIPT John Monaghan and Peter Just Andrew Robinson Available soon: German Philosophy Andrew Bowie Advertising Winston Fletcher Druids Barry Cunliffe Film Michael Wood Forensic Psychology David Canter For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ This page intentionally left blank Kathryn Kalinak Film Music A Very Short Introduction 1 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kalinak, Kathryn Marie, 1952– Film music : a very short introduction / Kathryn Kalinak. p. cm. — (Very short introductions) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-537087-4 (pbk.) 1. Motion picture music—History and criticism. I. Title. ML2075.K33 2010 781.5'42—dc22 2009022731 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants. on acid-free paper Contents List of illustrations xi Preface xiii 1 What does fi lm music do? 1 2 How does fi lm music work? 9 3 Why does fi lm music work? 22 4 A history of fi lm music I: 1895–1927 32 5 A history of fi lm music II: 1927–1960 51 6 A history of fi lm music III: 1960–present 71 7 Composers and their craft 91 Conclusion 115 References 117 Further reading 123 Recommended viewing 131 Index 135
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