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Berberian Sound Studio

Berberian Sound Studio DOMINIC POWER Another tramp told the story of Gilderoy, the Scottish robber. Gilderoy was the man who was condemned to be hanged, escaped, captured the judge who had sentenced him, and (splendid fellow!) hanged him. The tramps liked the story, of course, but the interesting thing was to see that they had got it all wrong. Their version was that Gilderoy escaped to America, whereas in reality he was recaptured and put to death. George Orwell Down and Out in London and Paris (1933) Peter Strickland's bewitching Berberian Sound Studio opens with one of horror fiction's classic tropes: a weary English traveller enters an unfamiliar environment, his host, a flamboyant foreigner, bids him enter with the greeting, `Welcome to the world of sound.' Strickland may have replaced the badlands of Transylvania that formed the backdrop of his breakthrough debut, Katalin Varga (2009) with a more enclosed world for his second feature, but his opening nevertheless conjures up a more familiar Transylvanian association. In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and in Todd Browning's 1931 film version, the English traveller Jonathan Harker is similarly summoned on a mysterious mission and, on arrival at Castle Dracula, is greeted by the Count with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New Soundtrack Edinburgh University Press

Berberian Sound Studio

Power, Dominic
The New Soundtrack , Volume 3 (1): 13 – Mar 1, 2013
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DOMINIC POWER Another tramp told the story of Gilderoy, the Scottish robber. Gilderoy was the man who was condemned to be hanged, escaped, captured the judge who had sentenced him, and (splendid fellow!) hanged him. The tramps liked the story, of course, but the interesting thing was to see that they had got it all wrong. Their version was that Gilderoy escaped to America, whereas in reality he was recaptured and put to death. George Orwell Down and Out in London and Paris (1933) Peter Strickland's bewitching Berberian Sound Studio opens with one of horror fiction's classic tropes: a weary English traveller enters an unfamiliar environment, his host, a flamboyant foreigner, bids him enter with the greeting, `Welcome to the world of sound.' Strickland may have replaced the badlands of Transylvania that formed the backdrop of his breakthrough debut, Katalin Varga (2009) with a more enclosed world for his second feature, but his opening nevertheless conjures up a more familiar Transylvanian association. In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and in Todd Browning's 1931 film version, the English traveller Jonathan Harker is similarly summoned on a mysterious mission and, on arrival at Castle Dracula, is greeted by the Count with

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The New Soundtrack – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2013

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