The Encyclopedia of Film Composers

The Encyclopedia of Film Composers

Author: Thomas S. Hischak

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-04-16

Total Pages: 837

ISBN-13: 1442245506

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For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer to embody a composition, music has been an integral element of most films. By the late 1930s, movie studios had established music departments, and some of the greatest names in film music emerged during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Bernard Herrmann. Over the decades, other creators of screen music offered additional memorable scores, and some composers—such as Henry Mancini, Randy Newman, and John Williams—have become household names. The Encyclopedia of Film Composers features entries on more than 250 movie composers from around the world. It not only provides facts about these artists but also explains what makes each composer notable and discusses his or her music in detail. Each entry includes Biographical material Important dates Career highlights Analysis of the composer’s musical style Complete list of movie credits This book brings recognition to the many men and women who have written music for movies over the past one hundred years. In addition to composers from the United States and Great Britain, artists from dozens of other countries are also represented. A rich resource of movie music history, The Encyclopedia of Film Composers will be of interest to fans of cinema in general as well as those who want to learn more about the many talented individuals who have created memorable scores.


Imani Trails

Imani Trails

Author: Josephine Qualls

Publisher:

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781937129064

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This history of immigration covers the struggles and contributions of the American Indians, the European colonists, the waves of European immigrants seeking refuge, African-Americans (and the civil rights movement), and Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern immigrants.


Hollywood Highbrow

Hollywood Highbrow

Author: Shyon Baumann

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0691187282

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Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.


A Draft of XXX Cantos

A Draft of XXX Cantos

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780811211284

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The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume--it was originally published in 1933--this epic of nine groupings of poems is now being issued as a New Directions Paperbook.


Murky World

Murky World

Author: Richard Corben

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Collects the entire Murky World series in print for the first time-first in a series of deluxe graphic novels from renowned creator Richard Corben's library! "Mr. Richard Corben... a genuine giant of his chosen medium."-Alan Moore The first-ever volume collecting Richard Corben's entire Murky World series, it features never-before-seen sketch material, the Dark Horse Presents one-shot, and an introduction by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, all presented in a gorgeous hardcover with a dust jacket. In Murky World, Tugat the warrior wakes from a strange dream only to find himself in a bizarre land populated by hungry deadlings, cruel necromancers, buxom cyclopes, evil cults, and more as he sets off on a dangerous journey with his beloved horse Frix. Corben is known for his legendary fantasy underground masterpieces published by Fantagor Press as well as Heavy Metal. His work has been recognized internationally, winning one of the most prestigious recognitions in comics literature, the Grand Prix at Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2012, Corben was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.


Sunsets Never Lie

Sunsets Never Lie

Author: Dave Shorr

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781508603238

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A fresh, funny and a bit of a strange look at life. science, relationships, philosophy, religion, and psychology.