Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton / / Michael Lee.
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 revolu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Music and the Moving Image : MMI
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 23 B/W illustrations 23 B&W images |
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Table of 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