MUS 285 - Music in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

FILM 285 FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 4

The ability to read music is not a requirement for this course. How does music add power and meaning to a film? What are the connections between the flow of music and the flow of a dramatic narrative? How does music enhance visual images? The course will focus on the pre-existent classical compositions chosen by Stanley Kubrick for his movies 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), and The Shining (1980). The ability to read music is not a requirement for this course.