Music in epic film listening to spectacle - Meyer, Stephen C. 1963- (New York Routledge, 2017)
Branding the franchise : music and the (corporate) myth of origin / James Buhler -- Manufacturing the epic score : Hans Zimmer and the sounds of significance / Frank Lehman -- Topoi and intertextuality : narrative function in Hans Zimmer's and Lisa Gerrard's music to Gladiator / Joakim Tillman -- The politics of authenticity in Miklós Rózsa's score to El Cid / Stephen C. Meyer -- From authenticity to anachronism : pre-existing music and "epic Englishness" in Elizabeth and Master and commander / Alexandra Wilson -- Records, repertoire and rollerball : music and the auteur epic / Julie Hubbert -- "The epic and intimately human" : contemplating Tara's theme in Gone with the wind / Nathan Platte -- "We're the real countries" : songs as private musical territories in the epic romances Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, and The English patient / Todd Decker -- Inverting the epic : the music of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven / Kirsten Yri -- The western as national epic : musical persona and narrative distance in High noon / Jordan Carmalt Stokes.
Keywords: Motion picture music -- History and criticism; Film composers; Epic films