Off The Planet

Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognizedas an important -- if often neglected -- aspect of film production and film studies.Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays onaspects of music, sound, and Science Fiction cinema. Following [...]
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Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognizedas an important -- if often neglected -- aspect of film production and film studies.Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays onaspects of music, sound, and Science Fiction cinema. Following a detailed historicalintroduction to the development of sound and music in the genre, individual chaptersanalyze key films, film series, composers, and directors in the postwar era. Thefirst part of the anthology profiles seminal 1950s productions such as The Day theEarth Stood Still, the first Godzilla film, and Forbidden Planet. Later chaptersanalyze 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 asSpace Is the Place, Blade Runner, Mars Attacks , and The Matrix. Off the Planet isan important contribution to the emerging body of work in music and film.Contributors include leading film experts from Australia, Canada, Japan, NewZealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Distributedfor John Libbey Publishing