2022-06-14 – 11:45 h

Kane Ediciones has published the book “JERRY GOLDSMITH: A Musical Chameleon” in English, written by Christian Aguilera Couceiro, dedicated entirely to the life and work of legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), which contains a foreword by renowned soundtrack producer Robert Townson.

 

The book has 526 pages and is 17 x 23.5 cm in size, including more than 123 color photographs and 40 black and white ones, alongside end pages grouping together all the official covers of the composer’s films, documentaries, TV (mini)series, TVMovies, and anthologies.

This book was previously released in Spanish language (read more) and now, after a thorough and detailed translation, it is available in English.

 

According to the official description:

“JERRY GOLDSMITH: A Musical Chameleon presumably is the most complete work published in the world around the career of a fundamental composer in the evolution of film music in the second half of the 20 th century. This monograph focuses its analysis on the vast cinematographic work —more than one hundred and sixty scores— of Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), who cultivated all kinds of genres for very different proposals. Freud (1962), Planet of the Apes (1968), The Boys from Brazil (1978), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Alien (1979), Gremlins (1984) and Basic Instinct (1992) are some of the many titles in which the Californian composer appears in the credits. Almost twenty years after his death, his musical legacy is one of the most impressive, in terms of quality and quantity, recorded in the last century. Both within and outside the artistic discipline that gave him the greatest international projection. The analysis of his scores for television, the list of rejected soundtracks, his concert works, as well as a detailed discography and an introductory section by Jaume Carreras, who offers an overview from a historiographical perspective, are other sections of interest in this monograph.”

The author:

“CHRISTIAN AGUILERA was born on 18 December 1967 in Barcelona. Graduate in Biological Sciences. He is the author of a number of books on film: Stanley Kubrick: A Creative Odyssey (1999); Film Directors of the 20th Century (1999); The Television Generation: The Liberal Conscience of American Cinema (2000); The Oscar Actors 1927-2003 (2003); Milos Forman: The Filmmaker of Nonconformism (2006); Joseph L. Mankiewicz: A Renaissance in Hollywood (2009); The World of Science: 50 Essential Films (2017); Barbara Stanwyck: A Grand Dame of Hollywood (2015); Fred Zinnemann (2020); Robert Altman: The Other Side of Hollywood (2020); John Frankenheimer: A Sniper in Hollywood (2021) and Peter Weir: A Hidden World (2021). He co-wrote A History of British Cinema (2013) with other authors. It is worth mentioning that he created a web page called www.cinearchivo.com  (later renamed www.cinearchivo.net) in 2001. His first novel is called The Haldane Enigma (2011). He has also authored several volumes on top-notch film scorers (Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and John Scott) and rock luminaires (Neil Young). The diptych History of Symphonic Rock and History of Progressive Neo-rock (1982-2016) also has his signature. Jerry Goldsmith: A Musical Chameleon (2022) Is his first book published in english.”

Content index:

  • (Robert Townson) LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART 1. THE CRASH OF 1929: THE FIRST 20 YEARS
    • Years of apprenticeship
  • PART 2. MUSICAL TRADITION AND RUPTURE
    • Sources of inspiration
  • PART 3. JERRY GOLDSMITH: A CREATIVE MIND
    • In the mind of the creator
  • PART 4. THE ONSET OF MATURITY: FREUD
    • Psychoanalysing Freud
  • PART 5 . THE WAR OF THE SENSES: ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND IN THE “TRENCHES” OF POLITICS
    • Preliminary notes: dramaturgy of music and war
  • PART 6 . JERRY GOLDSMITH AND THE WESTERN FILM GENRE
  • PART 7 . A BEFORE AND AN AFTER IN THE HISTORY OF FANTASTIC CINEMA PLANET OF THE APES
  • PART 8 . FANTASTIC MR. GOLDSMITH (1968-2000)
  • PART 9 . INTERCONTINENTAL MUSIC
    • Asia
    • South america
    • Africa
  • PART 10 . THE EPIC OF THE “ANTIHERO”
  • PART 11 . EXPRESSION OF THE THRILLER GENRE
  • PART 12 . DRAMA AND COMEDY: TWO FACES OF LIFE
    • Dramas
    • Comedies
  • PART 13 . ADVENTURE AND ANIMATION FILMS
    • Adventure films
    • Animation films
  • PART 14 . THE FANTASY WORLD OF JOE DANTE AND THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE
    • The fantastic world of Joe Dante
    • The Star Trek universe
  • PART 15 . ACTION FILMS, DISASTER FILMS AND CONSPIRACIES. FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE DAWN OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
    • Action films
    • Disaster films
    • Political fiction conspiracies: From the cold war to the dawn of the new world order
  • APPENDIX
    • Jerry Goldsmith’s work for television: An unknown dimension
    • Complete movies discography and (mini)series for television
    • Discography for concerto works

 

From 11th June 2022 the book “JERRY GOLDSMITH: A Musical Chameleon” is available for pre-order on the web www.kaneediciones.com. As a courtesy to all those who pre-order the book, will receive a dedicated copy, either of the Spanish edition (available from May 2022) or the English edition.

 

Link to buy the book (26€):

https://kaneediciones.com/tienda/