Foreword

Introduction: Film and Music, Theory and Analysis

Frank Lehman

1. Timbre in Film Music ? Making Magic through Tone Color

Chelsea Oden

2. “The Click Is Your Friend”: Film Scores and Tempo Analysis

Rebecca M. Doran Eaton

3. Tracking Progressions of Heroic Chord Progressions in Recent Popular Screen Media

Scott Murphy

4. John Williams’ Star Wars Themes: Good vs. Evil Conflicts as a Structural Principal for Leitmotifs

Mark Richards

5. Topic Theory and Film: Coming of Age in 1994’s and 2019’s Little Women

Janet Bourne

6. A Matter of Time: Reality and Fantasy through Metrical Analysis in Contemporary Hollywood Film

Andrew S. Powell

7. Film Music and Dialogic Form

Charity Lofthouse

8. Tonal Analysis of the Integrated Soundtrack: Music, Sound, and Dialogue in Baby Driver

Tahirih Motazedian

9. Analyzing Musical Metamorphoses: Thematic Transformation in Shirley Walker's Batman

Frank Lehman

10. Post-Tonal Theory and Hollywood Scores: Three Analytical Vignettes

Erik Heine

11. Attuning Serialism: David Shire’s Scores for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, and Zodiac

Juan Chattah

12. Romance and the Two Poles of Underscore

James Buhler

Notes on Contributors

Index