Hammer film scores and the musical avant-garde

• Tác giả: David Huckvale
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 0786434562 (softcover : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780786434565 (softcover : alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 781.5 *Kinds of music
• Thông tin xuất bản: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2008.
• Mô tả vật lý: ix, 225 pages : , illustrations ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 283805
• Chủ đề: 1. Avant-garde (Music); 2. Horror films--History and criticism; 3. Motion picture music--History and criticism

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214), discography (page 211), and index.

Tóm tắt

"Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films." "This book tells how Hammer commissioned composers at the cutting edge of European musical modernism to write their movie scores, introducing the avant-garde into popular culture via the enormously successful horror film. Each chapter addresses a specific category of the avant-garde musical movement and elaborates upon the visionary composers who made the horror film soundtrack a melting pot of opposing musical cultures."--BOOK JACKET.