Strains of Utopia

by Caryl Flinn

Book Overview

When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argues that films...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691006199
• ISBN13: 9780691006192
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"