UID:
edocfu_9959228773902883
Format:
1 online resource (216 pages) :
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illustrations, tables.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-350-98808-1
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0-85772-736-2
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0-85772-940-3
Series Statement:
Investigating cult TV series
Content:
"How does music enrich and define cult television series? This book analyzes theme tunes and scoring on television to reveal how composers construct a series' identity using musical idioms and instruments. Characters and plot developments, similarly, are enhanced by their musical accompaniment. The different scoring strategies employed in science fiction and horror-based genres, comprising for example Star Trek or Dr. Who, are considered alongside cult shows set in our reality, such as Dexter, The Sopranos and Queer as Folk. These discussions are complimented by in-depth case studies of musical approaches in three high-profile series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica and Lost. Written from a musicological standpoint but fully accessible to non-musicologists, the book significantly advances television and music studies."--Back cover.
Note:
1. Music and its Means of Production: Film versus TV -- 2. Early Cult Television Scoring Strategies -- 3. Intros and Outros: the Changing Nature of Opening Titles and End Credits in Cult TV -- 4. Listening to Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- 5. Scoring Television Vampires -- 6. The Bells of Hell go Tingalingaling : Diabolical Genre Games in Supernatural TV -- 7. Music, Fantasy and Subjectivity in 'Real World' Dramas -- 8. The Rest is Noise : Music and Sound in Hannibal -- Conclusion.
,
Also available in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78453-029-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78453-028-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350988088
