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Title |
Title of document |
Sound and Music in Hammer’s Vampire Films - Terror Tracks |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Michael Hannan; Southern Cross University; Australia |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Music; Cinema |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
soundtrack; cinema; thriller; Hammer films |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
N1-(9211) Visual arts; MT737 Motion picture accompanying |
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Description |
Abstract |
Analysis of the techniques used in the scoring of the Hammer horror output concluding that Hammer'ss use of dramatic sound effects and powerful orchestrations in the vampire films dramatize a monstrous presence and threat chiefly conveyed through symbolic power and suggestion rather than graphic dismemberment and/or depictions of gore. While Hammers composers were not responsible for any significant musical innovations, their development of a series of scores (managed and maintained by house music directors) created a musical reference bank for future horror-film composers. In Hammers diegeses the world is essentially rendered: Draculas dramatic, exciting darkness against the forces of light, reason and restraint. Returning to the cultural frame that prefaced this chapter, it is perhaps not overfanciful to read Hammers post-war films and particularly their routine victories of the forces of good over evil as a cathartic replaying and purging of the traumas of the war years. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Jul-2009 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/19123 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.19123 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Terror Tracks |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
global |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |