About the Authors
- About the Authors
gillian anderson is a conductor and musicologist who has participated in the restoration and reconstruction of the original orchestral scores written to accompany over fifty of the great “mute” films. Her most recent performances have included Stark Love, Modern Times, Nosferatu, Haexan, Broken Blossoms, and Intolerance. Her publications include Music for Silent Films 1894–1929: A Guide (1988); the translation of Ennio Morricone and Sergio Miceli’s Composing for Cinema (2013); “D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance: Revisiting a Reconstructed Text,” Film History 25, no. 3 (2013); and “Synchronized Music: The Influence of Pantomime on Moving Pictures,” Music and the Moving Image 8, no. 3 (2015). www.gilliananderson.it.
paul chihara has composed scores for over ninety motion pictures and television series. He has worked with such luminaries as directors Sidney Lumet, Louis Malle, Michael Ritchie, and Arthur Penn. His movie credits include Prince of the City, The Morning After, Crossing Delancey, and John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes. His works for television include China Beach, Noble House, Brave New World, and 100 Centre Street. As a prize-winning concert composer, Chihara has received numerous commissions and awards, including the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award and the Fulbright Fellowship; those from the Naumberg Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts; as well as those from the following orchestra’s: the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Chihara now teaches film-scoring composition at NYU Steinhardt’s Music Theory and Composition program.
paul christiansen is an associate professor of music at Seton Hall University. Supported by grants from Fulbright, DAAD, and the American Musicological Society, his work has appeared in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of Musicological Research, Notes, ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal, Plainsong and Medieval Music, Journal of the Society for American Music, MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, Music and Politics, and 19th-Century Music. His book Orchestrating Public Opinion: How Music Persuades [End Page 66] in Television Political Ads for US Presidential Campaigns, 1952–2016 is forthcoming from Amsterdam University Press.
tim summers is a teaching fellow in music at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research concerns music in modern popular culture. He has published scholarship on music in film, television, and comics, though most of his research has focused on video games. He is the author of Understanding Video Game Music (Cambridge, 2016), and on the same topic, he has edited an anthology of essays, Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Equniox, 2016), and an issue of The Soundtrack. He cofounded the European Ludomusicology research group. His research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the Journal of Film Music, and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. [End Page 67]
