Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, February 23

Students turned in their Academy Award-related assignments, and we looked at who some students had singled out as leading film composers through the years (e.g., Alfred Newman and John Williams), then learned a little about Dmitri Tiomkin, pal of Sergei Prokoviev, and composer of the score for Shadow of a Doubt and 127 other films.

We returned then to the music in Shadow's library scene and from there to a discussion of musical motifs more broadly, and to the use of motifs more generally in art, architecture, literature and film.