Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton

AvMichael Lee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-05
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Music and the Moving Image
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474497022

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Michael Lee is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of numerous articles on film music in horror films from studio-era Hollywood. His earlier work focuses on the American postwar avant-garde and the Ballets Russes in the 1920s.

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The saying "Music makes up 50% of a film" has never been more true than that of Roy Webb’s contributions to Val Lewton’s horror pictures. Michael Lee, in his meticulous research and interpretative analysis, makes clear that we must listen to these movies in order to fully appreciate their richness.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction“Happy Mood Over This, Roy”: Webb’s Score for Cat People as Film AnalysisFractured Reasons and Fractured Reason in I Walked with a ZombieThe Leopard Man as Penitential Horror FilmSearching for Meaning in The Seventh VictimA Wartime Fable in the Sounds of The Ghost ShipMusic for Amy and Her Friend: Webb’s Score for The Curse of the Cat PeopleBoris Karloff and the Soundtrack of The Body SnatcherValidating Uncertainty on the Isle of the Dead“Dainty Little Notes, Ain’t They?”: Roy Webb’s Age of Reason in BedlamA Closing Argument