| Contents |
Maestros: John Hollingsworth, Marcus Dodds and Philip Martell -- The horror from Vienna: Arnold Schoenberg -- Serial killer: Benjamin Frankel -- Modified modernism: Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens -- The uncanny: Richard Rodney Bennett -- Romantics: Harry Robinson and James Bernard -- Prehistoric modernism: Mario Nascimbene and Tristram Cary -- Australian menace: Don Banks and Malcolm Williamson -- Modern gothic: Mike Vickers and John Cacavas -- Catching up with the future: Paul Glass -- Television terror: John McCabe, Paul Patterson and David Bedford. |
| Abstract |
Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films. 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214) and index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography: page 211. |
| LCCN | 2008016260 |
| ISBN | 9780786434565 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0786434562 (softcover : alk. paper) |
