Книга Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music
'Reveals the stories and the people behind your favourite film scores' – Nick de Semlyen, editor of Empire
‘Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight’ – Richard Ayoade
How can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air? How do directors communicate their musical vision to composers? And when does a soundtrack take on a life of its own?
Award-winning film critic Mark Kermode and radio producer Jenny Nelson embark on a full-throttle trip down the glorious rabbit hole of film composition to answer these questions and more.
Celebrating the emotional connection that audiences form with film music, exploring the evolution of film scoring from silent films to the present day, and examining how what we hear has an impact on what we see, Mark talks to some of his favourite composers and delves into the movie music he loves.
Including interviews with extraordinary talents from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood to Oscar-winning composers Rachel Portman and Howard Shore, and the stories behind iconic soundtracks such as Jocelyn Pook’s Eyes Wide Shut, Michael Kamen’s Brazil, and Vangelis’s Blade Runner, Mark Kermode’s Surround Sound is a thrilling take on how great scores are brought to life on the silver screen, perfect for film buffs and music lovers alike.
"Wonderfully enjoyable and informative . . . opens up a different way of listening and appreciating . . . a superb account, at once lucid and complex." - Literary Review
"A celebratory tour d'horizon of film music history that covers an enormous range, from the popular to the classic to the bracingly avant garde . . . Excellent." - Sight and Sound
"Another witty and wise affair . . . an entertaining and assorted history of music and sound in cinema." - Empire
"Turns up the power of movie scores . . . a must-have for cinephiles and music fans." - The Irish Times
"A treasure-trove of quotes and anecdotes a perfect place to start if you want to discover new films, scores and soundtracks." - Shortlist
"Typically enthralling and comprehensive . . . a goldmine for soundtrack obsessives and newcomers alike . . . a compulsively readable book that moves with the propulsion of John Williams’s Jaws while exhibiting all the breadth of Miklós Rósza’s Ben-Hur." - BBC Music
"An accessible, unpretentious examination of the evolution of film music . . . and what makes the book truly satisfying is that it gives the full picture of the process of film composition (pun intended), for better or worse." - Sunday Independent