Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films

K.J.Donnelly is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He is author of Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film (2014), British Film Music and Film Musicals (2007), The Spectre of Sound (2005) and Pop Music in British Cinema (2001), and editor of Film Music: Critical Approaches (2001), co-editor of Music in Video Games: Studying Play (2013) and Music in Science Fiction Television (2012). Ann-Kristin Wallengren is Professor in Film Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her research embraces questions about film and national and cultural identity, representation, ideology and transnationality, as well as on different aspects of film music. She has recently published Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness in Film and, together with K.J.Donnelly, a special issue of Music and the Moving Image about the psychology of film music.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1. Music and the Resurfacing of Silent Film: A General Introduction; Ann-Kristin Wallengren and K.J.Donnelly2. How Far Can Too Far Go?: Radical Approaches to Silent Film Music; K.J.DonnellyPART I: ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL PRACTICES3. Between Practice and Theory: Silent Film Sound and the Music Archive; Carolin Beinroth4. Gottfried Huppertz's Metropolis: The Acme of 'Cinema Music'; Emilio Audissino5. The Music of The Circus; Gillian B.Anderson6. Cowboys, Beggars and the Deep Ellum Blues: Playing Authentic to Silent Films; Michael HammondPART II: NOVEL MUSIC AND NEW ISSUES7. Bringing a Little Munich Disco to Babelsberg: Giorgio Moroder's Score for Metropolis; Jeff Smith8. Soviet Fidelity and the Pet Shop Boys; Beth Carroll9. Multiple Soundtrack Versions on DVD: Scoring Modern City Life and Pastoral Countryside; Christopher NatzénPART III: CURRENT PRACTICES AND NEW TRADITIONS10. Edit's Hand. Music to The Phantom Carriage; Matti Bye11. Scoring Ruttman's Berlin: Musical Meaning in Historical and Critical Contexts; Matt Malsky12. Silent Film, Live Music and Contemporary Composition; Ed Hughes13. To be in Dialogue with the Film: With Neil Brand and Lillian Henley at the Masterclasses at Pordenone Silent Film Festival; Ann-Kristin Wallengren