• Cape Fear: Remaking a film score

    Author(s):
    Jonathan Godsall (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Subject(s):
    Motion picture music, Musicology, Intertextuality
    Item Type:
    Article
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/6qx3-1g74
    Abstract:
    For his 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 film Cape Fear, Martin Scorsese had the Bernard Herrmann score of the original adapted by Elmer Bernstein. This article first examines that Herrmann score, before showing how it was effectively ‘re-composed’for the later film, with Bernstein taking its basic components and redeploying them in often entirely new musical and filmic contexts, while also combining them with his own newly composed music and further pre-existing material from Herrmann’s rejected score for Torn Curtain (Hitchcock, 1966). The motivations for the reuse of Herrmann’s music, and issues of interpretation arising from the 1991 score’s compilation status will be considered. The article aims to be relevant not only for scholars of music in moving-image media, but also for those interested in remakes and media intertextuality more generally.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1386/st.4.2.117_1
    Publisher:
    Intellect
    Pub. Date:
    2013-1-29
    Journal:
    The Soundtrack
    Volume:
    4
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    117 - 135
    ISSN:
    1751-4193,1751-4207
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    1 year ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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