Rough Bibliography on Film Theory/Philosophy Sources

Buhler, James, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer, editors. Music and Cinema. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000.

Colón Perales, Carlos, Fernando Infante Del Rosal, and Manuel Lombardo Ortega. Historia y teoria de la musica en el cine: Presencias afectivas. Sevilla, Spain: Alfar, 1997.

Dickinson, Kay, editor. Movie Music: The Film Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003.

Donnelly, K.J., editor. Film music: Critical Approaches. New York, NY: Continuum, 2001.

Flinn, Carol. “The Most Romantic Art of All: Music in the Classical Hollywood Cinema.” Cinema Journal 29, no. 4 (1990): 35-50. Via JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org

Gallez, Douglas W. “Theories of Film Music.” Cinema Journal 9, no. 2 (1970): 40-47. Via JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org

Huntley, John and Roger Manvell, editors. Techniques in Film Music. New York, NY: Focal Press, 1975.

Kivy, Peter. “Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Enquiry,” In Film Theory and Philosophy, edited by Richard Allen and Murray Smith, 308-328. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Leinberger, Charles. Ennio Morricone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Film Score Guide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Marks, Martin. “Film Music: The Material, Literature, and Present State of Research.” Notes 36, no. 2 (1979): 282-325. Via JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org

Mathieson, Muir. “Aspects of Film Music.” Tempo 9 (1944): 7-9. Via JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org

Miceli, Sergio. “Analizzare la musica per film, una riproposta della teoria dei livelli.” Rivista italiana di musicologia 29, no. 2 (1994): 517-544. Via RILM, http://www.rilm.org/

Nelson, Robert U. “Film Music: Color or Line?” Hollywood Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1946): 57-65. Via JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org

Neumeyer, David. “Film Music Analysis and Pedagogy.” Indiana Theory Review 11 (1990): 1-28.

Paulin, Scott D. “Richard Wagner and the fantasy of cinematic unity: The idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the history and theory of film music.”

Prendergast, Roy M. Film Music: A Neglected Art: A Critical Study of Music in Films. New York, NY: Norton, 1992.

Rabenalt, Robert. “Über die Bedeutung kompositorischer Techniken in der Filmmusik: Segmenttechnik bei Ennio Morricone” In Musiktheorie 20, no. 3 (2005): 267-278. Via RILM, http://www.rilm.org

Smith, Jeff. The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998.