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. According to these categories, chapters elaborate upon the visionary composers who made the horror film soundtrack a melting pot of opposing musical cultures.

About the Author
Music writer David Huckvale teaches film music at Birmingham University and has taught extensively for Cambridge University, The Open University and other adult education organizations. His is the author of James Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula (2006) and his work has been published in Journal of Popular British Cinema, Popular Music, BBC Music Magazine and Wagner.


Book Information
ISBN 9780786434565
Author David Huckvale
Format Paperback
Page Count 235
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc