Terror Tracks

Philip Hayward (volume editor) is editor of the journal Shima and is an adjunct professor in the School of Communication at University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). He has written widely on island and maritime cultures - see - and has held visiting research professorships at Kansai University and Kagoshima University (Japan) and University of New Orleans (USA). He is currently working on research projects with Wakayama University Centre for Tourism, Japan, and with researchers from the Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage at Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy.

• Table of ContentsPrelimsAcknowledgements and About the Authors vii – viiIntroduction,Scoring the Edge 1 – 13, Philip Hayward1. Psycho-Analysis: Form and Function in Bernard Herrmann’s Music for Hitchcock’s Masterpiece 14 – 46, James Wierzbicki2. An Audiovisual Foreshadowing in Psycho 47 – 59, Scott Murphy3. Sound and Music in Hammer’s Vampire Films 60 – 74, Michael Hannan4. Creative Soundtrack Expression: Tôru Takemitsu’s Score for Kwaidan 75 – 87, Kyoko Koizumi5. Prog Rock, the Horror Film and Sonic Excess: Dario Argento, Morricone and Goblin 88 – 100, Tony Mitchell6. Inflamed: Synthetic Folk Music and Paganism in the Island World of The Wicker Man 101 – 111, Jon Fitzgerald, Philip Hayward7. Rhythms of Evil: Exorcizing Sound from The Exorcist 112 – 124, Mark Evans8. Texas Chainsaws: Audio Effect and Iconicity 125 – 136, Rebecca † Coyle, Philip Hayward9. Incorporating Monsters: Music as Context, Character and Construction in Kubrick’s The Shining 137 – 170, Jeremy Barham10. Music of the Night: Scoring the Vampire in Contemporary Film 171 – 185, Janet K. Halfyard11. Scary Movies, Scary Music: Uses and Unities of Heavy Metal in the Contemporary Horror Film 186 – 197, Lee Barron, Ian Inglis12. “Like Razors through Flesh”: Hellraiser’s Sound Design and Music 198 – 212, Karen Collins13. Spooked by Sound: The Blair Witch Project 213 – 228, Rebecca Coyle †14. Popular Songs and Ordinary Violence: Exposing Basic Human Brutality in the Films of Rob Zombie 229 – 237, Laura Wiebe Taylor15. Terror in the Outback: Wolf Creek and Australian Horror Cinema 238 – 248Philip Hayward, Harry Minassian16. The Ghostly Noise of J-Horror: Roots and Ramifications 249 – 267, James WierzbickiEnd MatterIndex 269 – 286