About the Author

A film scholar and a film musicologist, Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton) holds one PhD in History of Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Pisa, Italy, and one PhD in Film Studies from the University of Southampton, UK. He specialises in Hollywood and Italian cinema, and his interests are film analysis, film style and technique, comedy, horror, and film sound and music. His book Film/Music Analysis. A Film Studies Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) concerns a method to analyse music in films that blends Neoformalism and Gestalt Psychology. Dr Audissino is the author of the monograph John Williams's Film Music: 'Jaws', 'Star Wars', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), the first book-length study in English on the composer, and the editor of the collection of essays John Williams. Music for Films, Television and the Concert Stage (Brepols, 2018).

Reviews

“A much-needed work that captures the spirit and thinking of John Williams. Audissino is to be applauded for taking on such a large musical figure and for presenting him in the most wide-ranging manner. One gets the impression that he has tracked down every significant fact on Mr. Williams.”- Vincent LoBrutto, author of Sound-On-Film;

“Emilio Audissino should be commended for his passion and research of such a stellar composer as John Williams.”- Larry Timm, author of The Soul of Cinema: An Appreciation of Film Music;

“A compelling, well-researched investigation of John Williams’s role in the Hollywood film music industry. . . . Audissino’s ability to address both film and music scholars in one accessible and engaging text is one of the study’s greatest strengths.”- Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association