| Description |
1 online resource (x, 213 pages.) |
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Music and the moving image |
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Music and the moving image.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Happy Mood Over This, Roy": Webb's Score for Cat People as Film Analysis -- 2 Fractured Reasons and Fractured Reason in I Walked with a Zombie -- 3 The Leopard Man as Penitential Horror Film -- 4 Searching for Meaning in The Seventh Victim -- 5 A Wartime Fable in the Sounds of The Ghost Ship -- 6 Music for Amy and Her Friend: Webb's Score for The Curse of the Cat People -- 7 Boris Karloff and the Soundtrack of The Body Snatcher -- 8 Validating Uncertainty on the Isle of the Dead -- 9 "Dainty Little Notes, Ain't They?": Roy Webb's Age of Reason in Bedlam -- 10 A Closing Argument -- References -- List of Films Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
Examines how the music in Val Lewton's horror films enhanced the films' aesthetics and visual styleProvides a fine-grained analysis of each film's original scoreExplores all examples of source music in each filmConsiders film music as a path to film analysisVal Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and absences. By denying audiences visual confirmation of horror, his reforms placed a fresh burden on the soundtrack of his films. This book offers a fine-grained study of the Lewton unit's transformational sonic style which introduced the first jump scare," liberal use of pre-musique concrète, and an original orchestral score for every film in the series in violation of "B" movie norms. Their orchestral scores often exceed the conventions of film music as we hear the RKO Music Department ignoring instructions thus freeing their contributions to signpost the path toward each films' essential themes. " |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Filmography: pages 205-207 |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed October 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
Lewton, Val -- Criticism and interpretation
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Webb, Roy, 1888-1982 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Lewton, Val
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| SUBJECT |
Webb, Roy, 1888-1982 fast |
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Lewton, Val fast |
| Subject |
Motion picture music -- History and criticism
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Horror films -- History and criticism
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LAW / Jurisprudence
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Horror films
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Motion picture music
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| Genre/Form |
Music criticism and reviews
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Film criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film criticism.
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Music criticism and reviews.
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Critiques cinématographiques.
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Comptes rendus de musique.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474497046 |
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1474497047 |
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9781474497053 |
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1474497055 |
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