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- Epic Sound: Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Indiana University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Note To Readers
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- Bibliography
- pp. 257-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253014597
Related ISBN(s)
9780253014436, 9780253014511
MARC Record
OCLC
892430047
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-07
Language
English
Open Access
No