The Music of Fantasy Cinema - Janet K. Halfyard
Scoring Fantasy Girls: Music and Female Agency in Indiana Jones and The Mummy films
The Music of Fantasy Cinema - Janet K. Halfyard
Janet K. Halfyard [+]
Birmingham Conservatoire
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Janet K. Halfyard is a Senior Academic in Music at Birmingham Conservatoire. She has published widely on film and television music, particularly in relation to horror and fantasy genres. Her publications include Danny Elfman’s Batman: a film score guide (Scarecrow, 2004) and Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Ashgate, 2010).
Victoria Hancock
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This chapter contrasts John Williams’s scores for the Indiana Jones films in the 1980s with Jerry Goldsmith and Alan Silvestri’s music for The Mummy films in the 2000s. The films examined are set between 1924 and 1935, a period that predates the main period of twentieth-century feminist activism by several decades; and they aim to recreate an earlier era, filtered through the lens of the later one in which they were created.