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Title Off the planet : music, sound and science fiction cinema / edited by Philip Hayward
Published London : John Libbey ; Bloomington, IN : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 214 pages) : illustrations, music
Contents Sci fidelity : music, sound and genre history / Philip Hayward -- Hooked on aetherophonics : The day the earth stood still / Rebecca Leydon -- Atomic overtones and primitive undertones : Akira Ifukube's sound design for Godzilla / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Forbidden planet : effects and affects in the electro avant garde / Rebecca Leydon -- The transmolecularisation of [Black] folk : Space is the place, Sun Ra and afrofuturism / Nabeel Zuberi -- Nostalgia, masculinist discourse, and authoritarianism in John Williams' scores for Star wars and Close encounters of the third kind / Neil Lerner -- Sound and music in the Mad Max trilogy / Rebecca Coyle -- "These are my nightmares" : music and sound in the films of David Cronenberg / Paul Théberge -- Ambient soundscapes in Blade runner / Michael Hannan ; Melissa Carey -- I'll be back : recurrent sonic motifs in James Cameron's Terminator films / Karen Collins -- Inter-planetary soundclash : music, technology and territorialisation in Mars attacks! / Philip Hayward -- Mapping the Matrix : virtual spatiality and the realm of the perceptual / Mark Evans
Summary "Off The Planet comprises a diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound and Science Fiction cinema. Following a detailed historical introduction to the development of sound and music in the genre, individual chapters analyse key films, film series, composers and directors in the post-War era."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index
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Subject Motion picture music -- History and criticism
Motion pictures -- Sound effects -- History
Science fiction films -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
Motion picture music
Motion pictures -- Sound effects
Science fiction films
Filmmusik
Science-Fiction-Film
Effets sonores.
Histoire.
Musique de film.
Film de science-fiction.
Motion picture music -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Sound effects -- History.
Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Hayward, Philip, editor
ISBN 9780861966448
0861966449
9780861969388
0861969383