Danny Elfman's Batman: A Film Score Guide (Scarecrow Film Score Guides) (Volume 2)

This book is a very interesting read. It is full of details about Danny Elfman's history and how he got to where he is today: one of the most ingenious, and recognizable composers of this era.I had hopes of learning more about Elfman's compositional style and method. I had hopes of seeing some of the scores from the "Batman" film in order to study his methods better. That not what I got.There is at best 30 measures of actual music in the book, and of those 30 or so measures they are partial scores that focus on individual individual groups instead of the score as whole.I had hoped to see plenty of score to study. That is not what I got.

Excellent analysis of a superb film score from one of my favorite film composers--Danny Elfman. (David Arnold and John Williams are my other favorite composers.)

My husband loves it!

Thank you a lot!Book is fantastic and comunication with you was not problem although I'm from Czech Republic :)

I bought the score to Batman when it came out in 1989, and consequently decided that I wanted to do music for film. When I saw that this book was available, I immediately wanted to get it. It's extremely in depth, looking at every angle of the score, it's relationship with the film, the cultural significance of both the film and the score, the orchestration, the overall thematic elements, etc. I can only imagine how many times the author must have seen the film. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Great book, very informative. Learned some pretty interesting things from it. Love that the author shines a light on Elfman's complete artistry, not just his work on Burton's Batman.

These books are fascinating but really are almost at a postgraduate music/film student's level so approach with great caution and patience.