1. Film Analysis - Apocalypse Now
The incredible and abstract approach that sound designer Walter Murch and music engineer Richard Beggs took hit viewers in the 80's with a combination of music and noise that they've never experienced. ... With rock music as frame, and particularly with The Doors, Coppola has found an image to conflate nightmare with normalcy--the worst extremes of Vietnam with the givens of American Life. Wild, destructive, and self-destructive as it can become, rock music is also inseparable from our daily life of Americans" "(188-189, Greiff). ... This further observation of the way music is invol...
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