Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History

by Rob Deemer, James Buhler, David Neumeyer

Book Overview

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal text for introductory film music courses, Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film.

The text explores film sound in three parts. Through engaging, accessible sample analyses and exercises, Part I illustrates ways to analyze a soundtrack in relation to the image track. Part II focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195327799
• ISBN13: 9780195327793
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.3"