Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204), filmography (pages 209-211) and index.
Glass, postminimalism and the media : initial questions and contexts -- The satisfaction of a drive : postminimal music and the advertising media -- Postmodern unfoldings : narrative, temporality and repetition in postminimal music -- Notes on a soundtrack : reading Glass's recent film scores -- Metamorphic meanings in Glass's intertextual soundtracks -- This is (not) a soundtrack : Dracula the movie or music drama? -- Existential conflict in Naqoyqatsi, book of longing and watchmen