Walter Reisch: The Musical Writer
- Autor(en)
- Claus Tieber
- Abstrakt
Academy Award-winning Austrian screenwriter Walter Reisch's (1903-83) career started in Austrian silent cinema and ended in Hollywood. Reisch wrote the screenplays for silent films, many of them based on musical topics (operetta films, biopics of musicians, etc.). He created the so-called Viennese film, a musical subgenre, set in an almost mythological Vienna. In my article I am analysing the characteristics of his writing in which music plays a crucial part. The article details the use of musical devices in his screenplays (his use of music, the influence of musical melodrama, instructions and use of songs and leitmotifs). The article closes with a reading of the final number in the last film he was able to make in Austria: Silhouetten (1936).
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft
- Journal
- Journal of Screenwriting
- Band
- 10
- Seiten
- 295 - 306
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 12
- ISSN
- 1759-7137
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1386/josc_00005_1
- Publikationsdatum
- 09-2019
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 604011 Filmwissenschaft
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Literature and Literary Theory
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/e24b8cc1-7baa-46d2-96be-c22a066ab5f2