Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton

By:

Michael Lee

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Music and the Moving Image

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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 concr�te, 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.

Author Biography:

Michael Lee, Professor of Musicology, University of Oklahoma.

Release date NZ

August 31st, 2022

Author

Michael Lee

Series

Music and the Moving Image

Pages

224

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

23 B/W illustrations 23 B&W images

ISBN-13

9781474497022

Product ID

35911482

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