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Lavish musical soundtracks contributed a special grandeur to the new widescreen, stereophonic sound movie experience of postwar biblical epics such as Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis. In Epic Sound, Stephen C. Meyer shows how music was utilized for various effects, sometimes serving as a vehicle for narrative plot and at times complicating biblical and cinematic interpretation. In this way, the soundscapes of these films reflected the ideological and aesthetic tensions within the genre, and more generally, within postwar American society. By examining key biblical films, Meyer adeptly engages musicology with film studies to explore cinematic interpretations of the Bible during the 1940s through the 1960s.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Epic Sound
• Subtitle: Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films
• Author: Stephen C Meyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780253014511
• ISBN: 0253014514
• ID: 08012696
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. November 2014

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