Communicating Fear in Film Music: A Sociophobic Analysis of Zombie Film Soundtracks

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dc.contributor.advisorWarfield, Patricken_US
dc.contributor.authorGonzalez-Fernandez, Pedroen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-24T06:20:17Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T06:20:17Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThe horror film soundtrack is a complex web of narratological, ethnographic, and semiological factors all related to the social tensions intimated by a film. This study examines four major periods in the zombie's film career--the Voodoo zombie of the 1930s and 1940s, the invasion narratives of the late 1960s, the post-apocalyptic survivalist fantasies of the 1970s and 1980s, and the modern post-9/11 zombie--to track how certain musical sounds and styles are indexed with the content of zombie films. Two main musical threads link the individual films' characterization of the zombie and the setting: Othering via different types of musical exoticism, and the use of sonic excess to pronounce sociophobic themes.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15412
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledFilm studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHorroren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRomeroen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSociophobicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSoundtracken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledZombieen_US
dc.titleCommunicating Fear in Film Music: A Sociophobic Analysis of Zombie Film Soundtracksen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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