Music in Films

A Critical Review of Literature, 1980-1996

Authors

  • Robynn J. Stilwell Georgetown University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.v1i1.19

Keywords:

literature on film music, film music historiography

Abstract

The purpose here is not to trace the history of music in film, but to survey the literature about music in film written between 1980 and 1996. Film music literature is a strange hybrid, much like its subject, existing in a limbo cut off from the main body of both its progenitors: neither film studies nor musicology have paid much attention to film music in the past, and like a squalling brat, film music studies have continued to protest loudly the neglect. While it is true that film studies and musicology have been largely uninterested in film music—or, to be fair, ill-equipped theoretically to approach the synthetic form—the vociferous plaints of complete neglect are gradually being exposed as hyperbole.

Author Biography

  • Robynn J. Stilwell, Georgetown University

    Robynn Stilwell is Assistant Professor of Music at Georgetown University. Her research falls into two broad, overlapping categories: music and movement (music and dance, film, theatre, video, and figure skating); and music and identity, including popular music and particularly music at the margins of identity and technological and political change.

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Stilwell, R. J. (2009). Music in Films: A Critical Review of Literature, 1980-1996. Journal of Film Music, 1(1), 19-61. https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.v1i1.19

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