Abstract
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).
Funder
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project number P 31422
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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