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Cultured Killers, or Terminal Bach

Kristi Brown’s essay ’Cultured Killers, or Terminal Bach’ studies the role of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music in horror and psychological movies, and movies prevailed by violence and technology. The author’s framework is the character of dr. Hannibal Lecter from Thomas Harris’ novel and movies Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. She points out that dr. Lecter would not appear so aristocratic if it had not been for his love of Bach’s Goldberg variations.

Following the streak of Bach’s music, Kristi Brown finds it in films generically similar to Hannibal like Seven, Kiss the Girls and Virtuosity. Bach’s music also appears in the book by Douglas Hofstadter Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, and the book by Richard Powers The Gold Bug Variations. The basis of the author’s research is the intertwinement of music with literature and films, and its extraordinary impact on the piano player Glenn Gould, Hannibal’s favourite performer.



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