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Focusing on the diversity of the role of music in cinema, this title emphasizes on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. Aimed at students of film studies, cultural studies and music, it explores the relationship between performance, music and film as well as the specificity of national, historical, social and cultural contexts.

Motion picture music --- Motion pictures and music. --- Moving-pictures and music --- Music and motion pictures --- Music --- History and criticism.

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This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body—from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach—this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body horror’, Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present; from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and The Greasy Strangler. .

Culture --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- Film genres. --- Literature --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Film Theory. --- Film History. --- Literary Theory. --- Genre. --- Study and teaching. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cultural studies --- Theory --- Plots, themes, etc. --- History and criticism --- Horror films --- Goth culture (Subculture) --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- History and criticism. --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Subculture --- Motion pictures-History. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Motion pictures—History. --- Literature—Philosophy.

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This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body—from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach—this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body horror’, Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present; from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and The Greasy Strangler. .

Philosophy --- Film --- Linguistics --- Literature --- History --- filmgeschiedenis --- geletterdheid --- Gothic --- film --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- Gogol, Nikolai V. --- Dahl, Roald --- Palahniuk, Charles Michael --- Bakhtin, Michael M. --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Kristeva, Julia --- Creed, Barbara

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Long description: Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) has long captivated travellers and explorers since it was first encountered by European voyagers in 1722. The island’s colossal stone carvings (moai) have been the primary attraction, yet these have overshadowed the broader culture of the Rapanui people. This significant edited collection brings together thirteen specialists from eight countries in a series of studies that address the pre-history, history, contemporary society and popular culture of Easter Island. Consideration is given to both the Rapanui and western cultures with topics covered including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, tourism, literature, comic books and music. This is a multidisciplinary book with subjects ranging from fact to fiction and from Thor Heyerdahl and Katherine Routledge to Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. Biographical note: Ian Conrich is an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia and Principal Editor of the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies. Hermann Mückler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vienna, and President of the Anthropological Society in Vienna.

Easter Island --- Social life and customs. --- History. --- In literature.