Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton EPUB
by Michael Lee
Part of the Music and the Moving Image series
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Examines how the music in Val Lewton's horror films enhanced the films' aesthetics and visual style
- Provides a fine-grained analysis of each film’s original score
- Explores all examples of source music in each film
- Considers film music as a path to film analysis
Val 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.
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- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781474497053
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781474497053