Genre, Music and Sound (Series)

Founding Editor

Mark Evans, University of Technology Sydney

Mark Evans retired from the series but we encourage new projects in the spirit of the series and we publish the Journal of Film Music. Contact Alyn Shipton at ashipton@ram.ac.uk to discuss a new project in this area.

Over the last two decades ‘Screen Soundtrack Studies’ has emerged as a lively area of research and analysis mediating between the fields of Cinema Studies, Musicology and Cultural Studies. It has deployed a variety of cross-disciplinary approaches illuminating an area of film’s audio-visual operation that was neglected for much of its history.

This series extends the emergent field by addressing a series of popular international film genres as they have developed in the post-War era (1945-present); analyzing the variety and shared patterns of music and sound use that characterize each genre.