Music in Action Film : Sounds Like Action!

Series Foreword ; Neil Lerner // List of Contributors // Preface: Sounds Like Action! ; James Buhler and Mark Durrand // Part I: Action Scored: Politics, Representation, and Identity / Favela Chic in Action. Soundtracking Urban Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; K.E. Goldschmitt / "You’re Not Gonna Get Mushy on Me, Are You?". Music and the New Man in 1990s Hollywood Action Film ; Rebecca Fülöp / "I Am No Lady When I Fight!". Gender Politics in the Postwar Swashbuckler Score ; Grace Edgar / Reviving the Swordplay Action Film. Nature, Technology, and the Soundtrack for Seven Samurai ; Brooke McCorkle Okazaki / Conan the Neoliberal?. The Sounds of Hypermasculine Entrepreneurship in Early Reaganite Film ; James Deaville // Part II: Action Scores: Evolving Musical Conventions / Underscoring Chased Heroes and Robbing Villains. Music of Immediacy in New Hollywood Action Thrillers of the late 1960s and 1970s ; Michael Baumgartner / John Williams’s Action Music in the Twenty-First Century ; Frank Lehman / "There and Back Again". Music and Generic Transformation in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Films ; Stephen C. Meyer / Star Trek as Action Film. Reimagining The Original Series’ Soundscape ; Paul Sommerfeld / A Tale of Two Cinemas: Zashchitniki (Guardians, 2017) and Music for the New Russian Superhero Film ; Joan Titus // Part III: Scoring Action: The Kinesthetic Experience and Production / "Those Who Dance". Popular Music, Audiovisual Editing, and Meaning across the Guardians of the Galaxy Franchise ; Catrin Watts / Toward a Musical Understanding of Cinematic Action: Two Experiments with Embodiment and Musical Vitality in Film Experience ; Mark Durrand / Sound-Induced Visual Illusion in Film ; Sarah Louden / "Humming the Foley, Singing the Sound". Designing Sound with a Musical Perspective ; Vanessa Theme Ament / Music, Digital Audio, Labor: Notes on Audio and Music Production for the Contemporary Action Film ; James Buhler // Index