Scoring for the Specter: Dualities in the Music of the Ghost Scene in Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet
Description:
This document's purpose is to analyze dualities found in different films of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each version brings different ideas to it. By analyzing each version and focusing on the Ghost Scene, comparisons of the scene's symbolism are made between the musical scores.
The beginning chapters provide a history of film, film music, the play, and events up to the ghost scene. After these chapters come analyses of the scene itself. Each version uses different parts of the play for its own purpo…
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Date:
August 2002
Creator:
Dunn, John T.
Partner:
UNT Libraries