Off the Planet
Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema
Person: Zuberi, Nabeel; Lerner, Neil; Leydon, Rebecca
Year: 2020
Language: English
Scope: 221 p.
Expected to be available from: May 4, 2024
- Contents:
- Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an importantâ€"if often neglectedâ€"aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and 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 analyze key films, film series, composers, and directors in the postwar era. The first part of the anthology profiles seminal 1950s productions such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, the first Godzilla film, and Forbidden Planet. Later chapters analyze the work of composer John Williams, the career of director David Cronenberg, the Mad Max series, James Cameron's Terminators, and other notable SF films such as Space Is the Place, Blade Runner, Mars Attacks!, and The Matrix. Off the Planet is an important contribution to the emerging body of work in music and film. Contributors include leading film experts from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Distributed for John Libbey Publishing
- Philip Hayward is Professor of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, and co-editor of Perfect Beatâ€"The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture. He has written and edited several other books, including Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music (John Libbey, 1999).
Title Information
Title: Off the Planet
Person: Zuberi, Nabeel; Lerner, Neil; Leydon, Rebecca
Editor: Hayward, Philip
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN: 9780861969388
Category: Non-Fiction & Guidebooks, Art, Culture & Media, Film
Loan period: 21 days