European Film Music

SUMARIO. Introduction ; Miguel Mera and David Burnand / Per aspera ad astra and back again : film music in Germany from 1927 to 1945 ; Reimar Volker / Music, people and reality : the case of Italian neo-realism ; Richard Dyer / Contemporary Spanish film music : Carlos Saura and Pedro Almodovar ; Kathleen M. Vernon and Cliff Eisen / Music as a satirical device in the Ealing comedies ; Kate Daubney / Screen playing : cinematic representations of classical music performance and European identity ; Janet K. Halfyard / Outing the synch : music and space in the French heritage film ; Phil Powrie / Sean O Riada and Irish post-colonial film music : George Morrison's Mise Eire ; David Cooper / Angel of the air : Popol Vuh's music and Werner Herzog's films ; K.J. Donnelly / Modernity and a day : the functions of music in the films of Theo Angelopoulos ; Miguel Mera / Preisner-Kieslowski : the art of synergetic understatement in Three colours: red ; Jon Paxman / 'The rhythm of the night' : reframing silence, music and masculinity in Beau travail ; Heather Laing / Scoring This filthy earth ; David Burnand // Bibliography // Index.