Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Audissino, Emilio[Herausgeber]

Titel

John Williams : music for films, television and the concert stage

Ist Teil von

• Contemporary composers : 1 (Alle Bände)

Ort / Verlag

Turnhout : Brepols

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This volume is a large exploration of the many sides of Williams's output. Once mostly considered a commercial composer and a mere rewriter of previous composers' styles, only recently Williams' music has begun to be taken seriously, and scholars from the music and the film departments have begun to produce research. The present volume seeks to build upon, complement and review what has been written so far on Williams. It is a large exploration of the many sides of Williams's output, aimed at showing the range of his production (not merely focussing on film music) and at analysing the depth of his dramaturgic and compositional skills with selected case studies. To accomplish this exploration, a large team of international scholars has been assembled from all around the world. The contributors come from film, media and music departments to provide a variety of disciplinary perspectives on Williams's work. - Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton, UK) is a film scholar and film musicologist. Dr Audissino's main research interests are Hollywood and Italian cinema, film style and technique, horror and comedy, film analysis, and sound and music in films. His book Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach (2017) concerns a method to analyse music in films that blends Neoformalism, Gestalt Psychology, and Leonard Meyer's musicology. A John Williams specialist, he is the author of John Williams's Film Music: 'Jaws', 'Star Wars', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style (2014), the first book in English on the composer.