Hammer film scores and the musical avant-garde
By: David Huckvale.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780786434565
Subjects: Hammer Film Productions; Motion picture music -- History and criticism; Avant-garde (Music); Horror films -- History and criticism
Description: "This book tells how Hammer Films 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Maestros : John Hollingsworth, Marcus Dodds and Philip Martell; title: The horror from Vienna : Arnold Schoenberg; title: Serial killer : Benjamin Frankel; title: Modified modernism : Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens; title: The uncanny : Richard Rodney Bennett; title: Romantics : Harry Robinson and James Bernard; title: Prehistoric modernism : Mario Nascimbene and Tristram Cary; title: Australian menace : Don Banks and Malcolm Williamson; title: Modern gothic : Mike Vickers and John Cacavas; title: Catching up with the future : Paul Glass; title: Television terror : John McCabe, Paul Patterson and David Bedford.