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Nicholas Reyland Editor

Janet K. Halfyard (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK) is author of Danny Elfman’s Batman: a film score guide (2004), Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV (2016) and has edited the collections Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2010) and Music in Fantasy Cinema (2012).

Nicholas Reyland (Royal Northern College of Music, UK). His books and edited collections include Music and Narrative since 1900Zbigniew Preisner’s ‘Three Colors’ Trilogy: A Film Score GuideLutosławski’s WorldsMusic, Analysis and the Body, and a special issue of Music Analysis dedicated to film music.