Epic Sound : Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films Paperback / softback
by Stephen C. Meyer
Paperback / softback
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Lavish musical soundtracks contributed a special grandeur to the new widescreen, stereophonic sound movie experience of postwar biblical epics such as Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis.
In Epic Sound, Stephen C. Meyer shows how music was utilized for various effects, sometimes serving as a vehicle for narrative plot and at times complicating biblical and cinematic interpretation.
In this way, the soundscapes of these films reflected the ideological and aesthetic tensions within the genre, and more generally, within postwar American society.
By examining key biblical films, Meyer adeptly engages musicology with film studies to explore cinematic interpretations of the Bible during the 1940s through the 1960s.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 11 b&w illus., 57 music exx.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:27/11/2014
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- ISBN:9780253014511
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 11 b&w illus., 57 music exx.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:27/11/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253014511