Tag: Akira Kurosawa

Film, Film Music and Sound

The Harp And The Sound Of Snow – Citizen Kane, Lost Horizon and Ikiru.

The use of harp in film scores has gained a number of clichéd uses over the years.  It can be seen as the most typical of ways to introduce dream sequences, even in more adventurous visual forms of dreams such as in Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1954) (score by Miklós Rózsa) or can be used as a leitmotif for harmony, paradise and utopia which also handily connects … Continue reading The Harp And The Sound Of Snow – Citizen Kane, Lost Horizon and Ikiru.

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Film, Film Music and Sound

Film Scores and the Social Construction of Emotions (Kurosawa and Ozu) – Part 1.

As a race of individual people, trying to find out where our characteristics came from can be a difficult task.  More specifically, trying to deduce whether we gained emotional characteristics on our own or whether they were influenced by outside factors (also meaning that these outside factors have in fact been effected by our emotions and not the other way round) is an almost impossible … Continue reading Film Scores and the Social Construction of Emotions (Kurosawa and Ozu) – Part 1.

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