MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bernard Herrmann, Otto Preminger, Duke Ellington
Document Summary
Depression era films were often spectacular or escapist. The adventures of robin hood, lost horizon (1937), the wizard of oz (1939) The 1940s: interest in stories that are more realistic . Psychological drama, complex motivations, character driven narrative. The dark side of the human condition. During the 1930s many german directors fleeing the nazis end up in. At the suggestion of arthur honegger, rosza goes into film scoring (1934) Does some film work in england, 1934-1939. Due to world war ii, travels to us in 1939 to complete the thief of bagdad (1940) Jungle book (1942) (first soundtrack released on record in the u. s. ) short themes . Double indemnity (1944) unpredictable unsettling greater use of dissonance. Paramount"s music director was furious, but r zsa enjoyed the support of the director billy wilder, and the music remained as r zsa wanted. A sketch of his life and work. (1975) Both films are psychological in nature, dealing with disturbed characters.