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Film Musings: A Selected Anthology from Fanfare Magazine.(Book review)

Publication: Cineaste
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Film Musings: A Selected Anthology from Fanfare Magazine by Royal S. Brown. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. 422 pp. Paperback: $45.00.

It can be argued that Royal Brown has produced the most sustained, lively, and well-informed body of film music criticism in the history of the genre....

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...His reviews, which began in High Fidelity in 1970 and spanned twenty more years from 1980 to 2001 in Fanfare, have touched on just about all film composers worthy of the name in the U.S., in Europe (especially France), and occasionally beyond. According to the author, the amusingly titled Film Musings represents his selection of about half his reviews from the period of 1983-2001, a span of seventeen of his thirty years in the craft. Since the purpose of most of these columns for Fanfare was to review CD releases of film music both new and old, his writings include consideration of the scores of many more films than merely those released in the 1980s...

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