Emilio Audissino, John Williams’s Film Music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style

Authors

  • Grace Edgar Denison University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.18256

Keywords:

film music, john williams, erich wolfgang korngold

Abstract

Emilio Audissino, John Williams’s Film Music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. [xxvi, 317pp. ISBN: 9780299297343. $124.00 (hardback)]. Illustrations, musical examples, scores, bibliography, index.


Daniel Goldmark and Kevin C. Karnes, eds., Korngold and His World
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. [353pp. ISBN: 9780691198293. $35.00 (paperback)]. Index.

Author Biography

  • Grace Edgar, Denison University

    Grace Edgar is a visiting assistant professor of music at Denison University. She received her PhD in historical musicology from Harvard University in 2020. Her research explores the representation of gender in Hollywood action film scores from the 1950s to the 1980s. Her publications are forthcoming in the Journal of the Society for American Music and in the edited volume Music in Action Film: Sounds Like Action! (Routledge, 2021).

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Published

2021-02-15

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1-2: Special Issue: Proceedings of “Max Steiner: Man and Myth,” California State University, Long Beach, February 24–25, 2018

Section

Reviews

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How to Cite

Edgar, G. (2021). Emilio Audissino, John Williams’s Film Music: Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style. Journal of Film Music, 9(1-2), 158-163. https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.18256