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Lavish musical soundtracks contributed a special grandeur to the new widescreen, stereophonic sound movie experience of postwar biblical epics such as Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis. In Epic Sound, Stephen C. Meyer shows how music was utilized for various effects, sometimes serving as a vehicle for narrative plot and at times complicating biblical and cinematic interpretation. In this way, the soundscapes of these films reflected the ideological and aesthetic tensions within the genre, and more generally, within postwar American society. By examining key biblical films, Meyer adept

Film composers. --- Bible films --- Motion picture music --- Cinema composers --- Film score composers --- Film scorers --- Motion picture composers --- Movie composers --- Scorers, Film --- Composers --- Biblical films --- Religious films --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Film composers --- Samson and Delilah (Motion picture) --- David and Bathsheba (Motion picture) --- Quo Vadis (Motion picture) --- The Robe (Motion picture) --- The Ten Commandments (Motion picture) --- Ben-Hur (Motion picture) --- King of Kings (Motion picture) --- Barabbas (Motion picture) --- The Greatest Story Ever Told (Motion picture)