Bridging the Fantastical Gap: Dread and the Uncanny in the Score of "It Follows"
Description:
"It Follows" (2014), written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. It chronicles the story of Jay, a college student who contracts a curse through sexual intercourse. The curse manifests itself as a human whom only the infected persons can see, always following at a walking pace, and determined to kill if it catches up. This thesis demonstrates the score's crucial role in establishing affect, setting, and character in a film with sparse dialogue a…
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Date:
May 2020
Creator:
Johnson, Kinley
Partner:
UNT Libraries