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Terror Tracks
Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, contributors analyse the role of music and sound in establishing and enha... Read more
Published: 2009
Pages: 299
eBook: 9781845532024
Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, contributors analyse the role of music and sound in establishing and enhancing the senses of unease, suspense and shock crucial to the genre. The anthology shows the various patterns of use an inflection in a range of scores - orchestral, popular, rock and electronic - and how these relate to non-musical sound. Lively and accessible, Terror Tracks is an important contribution to study of Horror cinema.
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| About the Authors | ix | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Notes | 12 | ||
| 1. PSYCHO-ANALYSIS | 14 | ||
| Notes | 37 | ||
| References | 44 | ||
| 2. An Audiovisual Foreshadowing in Psycho | 47 | ||
| 3. Sound and Music in Hammer’s Vampire Films | 60 | ||
| Notes | 73 | ||
| References | 74 | ||
| 4. Creative Soundtrack Expression | 75 | ||
| Notes | 85 | ||
| References | 86 | ||
| 5. Prog Rock, the Horror Film and Sonic Excess | 88 | ||
| Notes | 98 | ||
| References | 99 | ||
| Discography | 100 | ||
| 6. Inflamed | 101 | ||
| Notes | 109 | ||
| References | 111 | ||
| 7. Rhythms of Evil | 112 | ||
| Notes | 122 | ||
| References | 124 | ||
| 8. Texas Chainsaws | 125 | ||
| Notes | 134 | ||
| 9. Incorporating Monsters | 137 | ||
| Notes | 158 | ||
| References | 160 | ||
| 10. Music of the Night | 171 | ||
| Notes | 184 | ||
| References | 185 | ||
| 11. Scary Movies, Scary Music | 186 | ||
| References | 196 | ||
| 12. “Like Razors through Flesh” | 198 | ||
| Notes | 210 | ||
| References | 211 | ||
| 13. Spooked by Sound | 213 | ||
| Notes | 225 | ||
| References | 228 | ||
| 14. Popular Songs and Ordinary Violence | 229 | ||
| Notes | 236 | ||
| References | 236 | ||
| 15. Terror in the Outback | 238 | ||
| Notes | 247 | ||
| References | 248 | ||
| 16. The Ghostly Noise of J-Horror | 249 | ||
| Notes | 264 | ||
| References | 266 | ||
| Index | 269 |