William H. Rosar

Introduction: The Literature of Film Music Clifford McCarty Is there a literature of film music? "The tendency has been to suppose not," wrote Martin Marks, ^ and as late as 1977 Roy Prendergast declared that with the exception of a few articles by Lawrence Morton, no body of intelligent and...

Introduction The Hidden Heritage of Film Music: History and Scholarship K. J. Donnelly Anyone who has seen films has heard film music in copious amounts. I am not simply referring to songs in film musicals, but more to the music heard in the background in almost every film. Much of the time...