Powrie (film and media, U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and Stilwell (art, music and theater, Georgetown U.) bring together 12 articles on the use of classical music, opera, and popular music in
film scores. Scholars in music and cultural studies from the US and the UK analyze the role of pre-existing music, aspects of high and low culture, meaning, ambiguity, leitmotivs, music by
Grieg and Mozart, and films including Eyes Wide Shut, Amadeus, The Godfather Part III, Young Frankenstein, French cinema, those by Almod籀var, those using Carmen, and films about girls' rites of
passage. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
