Music in Epic Film : Listening to Spectacle

SUMARIO. // Foreword Preface: Epic Genre, Epic Style Stephen ; C. Meyer // Acknowledgments // Part I: Marketing and Production / 1. Branding the Franchise: Music and the (Corporate) Myth of Origin ; James Buhler / 2. Manufacturing the Epic Score: Hans Zimmer and the Sounds of Significance ; Frank Lehman Part II: Narrative and Interpretation / 3. Topoi and Intertextuality: Narrative Function in Hans Zimmer's and Lisa Gerrard's Music to Gladiator ; Joakim Tillman / 4. The Politics of Authenticity in Miklos Rozsa's Score to El Cid Stephen ; C. Meyer // Part III: Pre-Existing Music and the Epic Style / 5. From Authenticity to Anachronism: Pre-Existing Music and Epic Englishness in Elizabeth and Master and Commander ; Alexandra Wilson / 6. Records, Repertoire and Rollerball: Music and the Auteur Epic ; Julie Hubbert // Part IV: Songs and Themes / 7. The epic and intimately human: Contemplating Tara's Theme in Gone With the Wind ; Nathan Platte / 8. We're the real countries: Songs as Private Musical Territories in the Epic Romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, and The English Patient ; Todd Decker // Part V: Genre and the (Anti-)Epic / 9. Inverting the Epic: The Music of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven ; Kirsten Yri / 10. The Western as National Epic: Musical Persona and Narrative Distance in High Noon Jordan ; Carmalt Stokes