SUMARIO. Table of Contents // Preface // Part One: Major Genres / 1 Introduction: Film Genre/Film Music / 2 Alien Harmonies: The Science Fiction Film / 3 Music for the Mean Streets: The Hardboiled-Detective Film / 4 Swashbuckling Symphonies: The Historical Romance Film / 5 The Rhythm of the Range: The Western Film Score / 6 From Swan Lake to Synthesizers: The Music of Horror Films // Part Two: Gender/Genre: Heroism in Sports Films and the Woman¿s Film / 7 The best there ever was in the game: Musical Mythopoesis and Heroism in Film Scores of Recent Sports Movies / 8 I always thought I was: Heroism and Music in Three Women’s Films // Discography // Notes // Bibliography // Index