Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton

Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton - Music and the Moving Image

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Val Lewton's horror films revolutionised a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasising 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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Book information

ISBN: 9781474497022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 781.542
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 480g
Height: 161mm
Width: 242mm
Spine width: 18mm