Cooke, Mervyn.

A history of film music / Mervyn Cooke. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xxi, 562 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 'silent' cinema -- Sound on track -- Hollywood's Golden Age : narrative cinema and the classical film score -- Stage and screen -- The mainstream divides : post-war horizons in Hollywood -- 'Never let it be mediocre' : film music in the United Kingdom -- Defectors to television. The documentary film ; Animation -- Film music in France -- Global highlights. Early sound films in the Soviet Union ; India : Bollywood and beyond ; From Italy to Little Italy ; Japan -- Popular music in the cinema -- Classical music in the cinema -- State of the art : film music since the New Hollywood.

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Motion picture music--History and criticism.

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