Divergent Tracks

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink (1991), Bram Stoker''s Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant transition from analogue to digital. However, their cultural and st...