Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film

by Kathryn Kalinak

Book Overview

Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film. Focusing on the scores of several key composers of the sound era, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Captain Blood, Max Steiner's The Informer, Bernard Herrmann's The Magnificent Ambersons, and David Raksin's Laura, Kalinak...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299133648
• ISBN13: 9780299133641
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"