The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The inclusive framework of "screen music" allows readers to explore the intersections between various types of media and music, reflecting the current state of scholarship and the future of the field. Covering topics drawn from musicology, sound studies, and media studies, the companion provides researchers and students with an effective overview of music's role in narrative media, as well as new methodological and aesthetic insights.

Miguel Mera is Reader in the Department of Music and Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) at City, University of London. Ronald Sadoff is Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions in the Steinhardt School at New York University. Ben Winters is Lecturer in Music at The Open University, UK.

Introduction: Framing Screen Music and Sound (MIGUEL MERA, RONALD SADOFF, AND BEN WINTERS)Part 1: Issues in the Study of Screen Music and Sound1 The Ghostly Effect Revisited (K.J. DONNELLY)2 Mystical Intimations, the Scenic Sublime, and the Opening of the Vault: De-classicizing the Late-romantic Revival in the Scoring of 'New Hollywood' Blockbusters c. 1977-1993 (PETER FRANKLIN)3 Screen Music and the Question of Originality (MIGUEL MERA)4 Affect, Intensities, and Empathy: Sound and Contemporary Screen Violence (LISA COULTHARD) 5 Balinese Music, an Italian Film, and an Ethnomusicological Approach to Screen Music and Sound (MICHAEL B. BAKAN) 6 Emphatic and Ecological Sounds in Gameworld Interfaces (KRISTINE JøRGENSEN)7 You Have to Feel a Sound for It to Be Effective: Sonic Surfaces in Film and Television (LUCY FIFE DONALDSON)8 Screen Music, Narrative, and/or Affect: Kie?lowski's Musical Bodies (NICHOLAS REYLAND)9 Roundtable: Current Perspectives on Music, Sound, and Narrative in Screen Media (ANAHID KASSABIAN - convenor) with ELENA BOSCHI,JAMES BUHLER, CLAUDIA GORBMAN, MIGUEL MERA, ROGER MOSELEY, RONALD SADOFF, and BEN WINTERS Part 2: Historical Approaches10 Sound Design and Its Interactions with Music: Changing Historical Perspectives (DANIJELA KULEZIC-WILSON)11 Dimensions of Game Music History (TIM SUMMERS)12 The Changing Audio, Visual, and Narrative Parameters of Hindi Film Songs (ANNA MORCOM)13 From Radio to Television: Sound Style and Audio Technique in Early TV Anthology Dramas (SHAWN VANCOUR)14 Manifest Destiny, The Space Race, and