Reimar Volker

IntroductionMiguel Mera and David BumandFocusing this anthology on the study of European film music is an approach that is, in equal measure, both necessary and problematic. It is necessary, because writing that examines the common themes, practices, methodologies and ideologies of music within...

iNTRoduCTiON As a medium, cinema is now over a century old; the musical genre of "film music" is at least that old, arguably older than the medium itself, extending back through magic lantern shows and Victorian melodrama into the entire history of theatrical presentation. Music provides shock...