Description: Equinox's Genre, Music and Sound series documents contemporary film genres as they have developed in the postwar era. Each volume analyzes the variety and shared patterns of music and sound use that characterize a particular genre. Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and th
Brief description: Janet K. Halfyard is a Senior Academic in Music at Birmingham Conservatoire. She has published widely on film and television music, particularly in relation to horror and fantasy genres. Her publications include Danny Elfman's Batman: A Film Score Guide (Scarecrow, 2004) and Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Ashgate, 2010).
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The collection is outstanding; its overall quality and breadth of content, methods, and interpretive strategies are particularly well demonstrated in essays by Alexander Binns, Mark Brill, Victoria Hancock and Halfyard, Philip Hayward, Jamie Webster, and Ben Winters. This excellent volume could also serve as a textbook for a seminar in film music. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.
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Most of the topics within this volume are not those typically used in film music textbooks or broader-based publications, and this is perhaps its greatest strength... If one is interested in the genre of fantasy, is looking for supplemental material that is off the beaten path, or is simply interested in a few of the movies discussed here, this book deserves a look.
Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association