Topic

anthropology

3 articles on this topic.

Editorial composition about John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and the symphonic sound of the cinematic cosmos.

July 12, 2026

The Sky and the Abyss: John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and the Symphonic Battle for the Cosmos

An anthropological reading of science-fiction music: John Williams's mythic symphonism set against Jerry Goldsmith's unsettling, liminal and experimental cosmos.

science fiction music anthropology John Williams Jerry Goldsmith

Editorial composition for Planet of the Apes with Taylor, apes and a beach of future ruin.

June 14, 2026

Jerry Goldsmith and the Broken Ear of Planet of the Apes

An anthropological reading of Jerry Goldsmith's score for Planet of the Apes, an impure, modern and displaced music for a civilization after man.

classic cinema science fiction music anthropology theory

Cinematic mural connecting prehistory, ancient mythologies and future extraterrestrials.

January 12, 2026

The Other Has Always Been Here

Long before cinema imagined alien life, our species lived alongside beings not entirely like us: Neanderthals, Denisovans and other hominins.

anthropology otherness hominins science fiction