Film Music: A Guide to Research and Resources

Collection of essays with examples cited from genres such as animation, the screen musical, film noir, Hollywood melodrama, the pop music and jazz film, documentary, period drama, horror, science fiction and the Western.

The handbook provides an overview to the field on a large scale in five parts: Film Music (Central Questions), Genre and Platform, Interpretative Theory and Practice, Contemporary Approaches to Analysis, and Historical Issues.

Includes an overview of suggested resources, including bibliographies, research guides, textbooks, composers,
film score guides, and more.

Expands focus to music outside of the United States, including suggested readers, sourcebooks, film score guides,
topic-specific monographs/anthologies, and more.

General sources for film music, as well as specialized studies (TV and video games), early studies, and region-specific studies (geographically distant from the Hollywood mainstream).

Provides an overview, with sections on music for silent films, early sound films, Hollywood, developments outside the USA, jazz, electronics, and technique.