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

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  • 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.

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

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

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