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Hammer film scores and the musical avant-garde

By David , AHammer Film Productions.; Hammer Film Productions.; Hammer Film Productions.;Hammer Film Production

Book information

Publisher
McFarland & Company
Year
2008
ISBN
9780786434565, 0786434562
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4692359 bytes)
Pages
225\237
Time added
2020-11-29 04:17:01

Description

Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films asDraculaandThe 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 venue of horror film. Each chapter addresses a specific category of the avant-garde musical movement. According to these categories, chapters elaborate upon the visionary composers who made the horror film soundtrack a melting pot of opposing musical cultures.

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