John Williams, Star Wars, and the Canonization of Hollywood Film Music

• In 1977 George Lucas's Star Wars not only set new standards on special effects, post-modern contamination and box office records: with his all symphonic, old fashioned, yet best-selling film score, composer John Williams was a key figure in the “Renaissance” of the classical Hollywood orchestral music. In that film score the whole tradition of Hollywood music gained a new life, found a launch pad to achieve a fair recognition, to became a model of practice and an example to follow: the classical Hollywood film music, with the Star Wars score, was “canonized”.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Filmvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Studies on Film (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Musikvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Musicology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

John Williams; Star Wars; film music; New Hollywood; music canon

Film Studies

Filmvetenskap

Musikvetenskap

Musicology

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)