Download e-book for iPad: Epic Sound: Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films by Stephen C. Meyer

By Stephen C. Meyer

ISBN-10: 0253014433

ISBN-13: 9780253014436

ISBN-10: 0253014514

ISBN-13: 9780253014511

Lavish musical soundtracks contributed a distinct grandeur to the hot widescreen, stereophonic sound motion picture event of postwar biblical epics reminiscent of Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis. In Epic Sound, Stephen C. Meyer exhibits how song used to be applied for numerous results, occasionally serving as a car for narrative plot and now and then complicating biblical and cinematic interpretation. during this means, the soundscapes of those movies mirrored the ideological and aesthetic tensions in the style, and extra usually, inside of postwar American society. by way of studying key biblical movies, Meyer adeptly engages musicology with movie reviews to discover cinematic interpretations of the Bible through the Forties throughout the 1960s.

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