Innehåll: Major genres. Introduction : Film genre/film music ; Alien harmonies : the science fiction film ; Music for the mean streets : the hardboiled-detective film ; Swashbuckling symphonies: the historical romance film ; The rhythm of the range : the western film score ; From Swan Lake to synthesizers : the music of horror films -- Gender/genre : heroism in sports films and the woman's film. "The best there ever was in the game" : musical mythopoesis and heroism in film scores of recent sports movies ; "I always thought I was" : heroism and music in three women's films
