Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Over the last decade, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important?if often neglected?aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and Science Fiction cinema. Following a detailed historical introduction to the development of sound and music in the genre, individual chapters analyze key films, film series, composers, and directors in the postwar era. The first part of the anthology profiles seminal 1950s productions such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, the first Godzilla film, and Forbidden Planet. Later chapters analyze the work of composer John Williams, the career of director David Cronenberg, the Mad Max series, James Cameron's Terminators, and other notable SF films such as Space Is the Place, Blade Runner, Mars Attacks!, and The Matrix. Off the Planet is an important contribution to the emerging body of work in music and film. Contributors include leading film experts from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction: Sci Fidelity--Music, Sound and Genre History (p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Hooked on Aetherophonics: The Day The Earth Stood Still (p. 30)
• Chapter 2 Atomic Overtones and Primitive Undertones: Akira Ifukube's Sound Design for Godzilla (p. 42)
• Chapter 3 Forbidden Planet: Effects and Affects in the Electro Avant Garde (p. 61)
• Chapter 4 The Transmolecularisation of [Black] Folk: Space is the Place, Sun Ra and Afrofuturism (p. 77)
• Chapter 5 Nostalgia, Masculinist Discourse, and Authoritarianism in John Williams' Scores for Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (p. 96)
• Chapter 6 Sound and Music in the Mad Max trilogy (p. 109)
• Chapter 7 "These are my nightmares": Music and Sound in the films of David Cronenberg (p. 129)
• Chapter 8 Ambient Soundscapes in Blade Runner (p. 149)
• Chapter 9 'I'll be back': Recurrent sonic motifs in James Cameron's Terminator films (p. 165)
• Chapter 10 Inter-Planetary Soundclash: Music, Technology and Territorialisation in Mars Attacks! (p. 176)
• Chapter 11 Mapping The Matrix: Virtual Spatiality and the realm of the perceptual (p. 188)
• About The Authors (p. 199)
• Bibliography (p. 201)
• Index (p. 211)