| Description |
xi, 240 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge music and screen media series
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Routledge music and screen media series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Carnival of souls and the organs of horror / Julie Brown -- Mischief afoot : supernatural horror-comedies and the Diabolus in musica / Janet K. Halfyard -- The monster and the music box : children and the soundtrack of horror / Stan Link -- The strange case of Rouben Mamoulian's sound stew : the uncanny soundtrack in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) / Neil Lerner -- Voices that lie within : the heard and unheard in Psycho / Ross J. Fenimore -- Pop goes the horror score : left alone in The last house on the left / Joe Tompkins -- Ramblin' men and piano men : crises of music and masculinity in The exorcist / Claire Sisco King -- Rehearing The shining : musical undercurrents in the Overlook Hotel / David J. Code -- Hearing deep seated fears : John Carpenter's The fog (1980) / K.J. Donnelly -- Music and the adult ideal in A nightmare on Elm Street / James Buhler -- The beauty of horror : Kilar, Coppola, and Dracula / James Deaville -- Quieting the ghosts in The sixth sense and The others / Lloyd Whitesell. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and music.
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Motion pictures and music. |
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Horror films. |
| Added Author |
Lerner, Neil William, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9780415992022 hardback |
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0415992028 hardback |
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9780415992039 paperback |
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0415992036 paperback |
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9780203860311 ebook |
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0203860314 ebook |
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